Washington, Sept 25: Researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London have found that while a lack of sleep doubles a person’s risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, too much of sleep can also have the same mortality effect from predominantly non-cardiovascular diseases.
Tampa: A student at University of South Florida (USF) has died after getting infected with bacterial meningitis.
Rachel Futterman, 19-year-old, fell ill on Friday and was admitted into a hospital on the next day, where she was placed on life-support system and later passed away.
Washington: The Federal health agency has cautioned parents not to give infants a liquid herbal supplement promoted as a curative for colic and teething pain because various bottles proved positive for a parasite, which may have sickened a 6-week-old baby in Minnesota.
Washington, Sept 24: NASA's next-generation lunar explorers may live in mobile habitats and drive mini-RVs that can tool around for a week or more at a time, agency scientists have said.
The rovers would be about the same size as the electric dune buggies driven during the last three Apollo moon landings in 1971 and 1972, but would be enclosed and pressurized to better protect astronauts from radiation, extreme temperatures and other hazards.
West Nile virus has been widely studied after it affected New York City for t
Washington: The Federal health agency has cautioned parents not to give infants a liquid herbal supplement promoted as a curative for colic and teething pain because various bottles proved positive for a parasite, which may have sickened a 6-week-old baby in Minnesota.
