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Researchers through a new report have suggested that drivers are as likely to be high on pots or pills or other drugs as dunked on alcohol. Researchers have suggested that the states need to take some major steps to keep an eye on such drivers and control drugged-driving.

The report, 'Drug-Impaired Driving: A Guide For What States Can Do', has unveiled a data according to which there has been steady increase in driving under the influence of drugs, even as drunken-driving rates continue to fall.

Author of the report, James Hedlund, a retired executive with the federal National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, said in a statement that he do not think that driving has received nearly the attention as the drunk driving has received.

A new US study has found that health effects of saturated fat on heart depend on the overall diet of a person. Cutting down on saturated fat was linked to a decline of up to 25% in heart disease risk.

Study researchers said 25% decline was not there when people used carbohydrates like white bread or pasta as replacements. Study's co-author Adela Hruby from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston said, "The saturated fats look benign when you compare them to the refined carbohydrates, but when you compare them to something else they're not benign".

Researchers through a recently conducted study have found that medical literatures have overstated the benefits of talk therapy for depression, because studies with poor results have rarely made it into journals.

This recent analysis is the first effort to account for studies that do not get published in the journals. Treatments like cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal therapy are indeed effective, the analysis found.

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the USA, with major depressive disorder (MDD) affecting around 6.7% of adults. Once the study's findings were revealed, it was used by critics of antidepressants to suggest that people with depression should avoid drug treatment.

A study of more than 300 children has unveiled that it is vital to have good intestinal germs. By not having enough of them in early life, risk increases of developing asthma. The research paper published in the Science Translational Medicine is latest one to explore the mysteries of the microbiome.

A research paper published in the Science Translational Medicine has unveiled that if good intestinal germs are not present early in life then it may increase the risk of developing asthma among children. The researchers have based their findings on the study of over 300 children.

A new study related to aspirin and its effects has unveiled that the drug is beneficial in the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancer. Having a baby aspirin, 81 mg dosage, on daily basis can increase the survival rate in colorectal cancer patients by around two times.

Study's lead researcher Dr. Martine Frouws of Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands shared that he along with his team decided to carry out research to know aspirin effects in the survival of patients having tumors in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract like the rectum, colon and esophagus.

North American Monarch butterflies are all set to move to their winter homes. To avoid winters, these beautiful creatures will be moving west to California's coast or South to the mountains of central Mexico.

These are the only species that carry out a long, two-way migration, said the US Department of Agriculture. Their migration generally starts in October. As per the officials, there are many butterflies that travel as far as 3,000 miles to reach their destinations.

A lot of focus is being given on these big beautiful orange, black and white ones, as their population has witnessed a massive decline. Their population has declined by more than 90% across the US in the last two decades. It has dropped from 1 billion to less than 60 million.