A recently conducted study indicates that an athlete runs lower risk of exercise-induced asthma when he sweats more. "The same mechanism that makes you sweat controls airway secretion," Dr. Warren Lockette, head of the clinical investigation explained at Naval Medical Center in San Diego. The report was published in Chest (September).

Attraction towards the opposite sex is a very complex phenomenon. However, a new research has suggested that expressing your feelings to the one whom you like can actually boost up your relationship. Just a simple phrase “I like you” can actually make your partner feel more attracted towards you and it can be further enhanced with eye contact and smile. The findings had been proposed by Dr Ben Jones, psychologist at Aberdeen University.

The psychologist for his study took 230 men and women, and found pout that social cues play a very vital role in attraction. Theses social cues indicate you as to how much others fascinate about you.

These findings which will be published in Psychological Science will also be showcased at the BA Festival of science and Liverpool.

A recent research has found a connection between contamination in womb and obesity. This study showed that exposure of pregnant women to some chemicals can adversely affect the baby. Exposure of mother to pollution increases the chances of obesity in kids even before their birth.

The study done by scientists at Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Medical Research showed that children who are exposed to pesticide in the womb will have double risk of obesity.

In this study, the researchers measured levels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in the umbilical cords of 403 children born on the Spanish island of Menorca. HCB is still found in food and environment although it is banned globally.

Muenster, Germany - A fad for vampire teeth means health troubles ahead, a health insurer warned Monday in Germany, where lovers of spooky Gothic music have been filing their canine teeth into sharp points.

KKH, an insurer in the northern city of Muenster, said filed teeth lacked their natural enamel and were likely to be hit by caries or to break off at the tip.

The music fans wear black clothing and make-up so that they look like scary people with a thirst for fresh blood.

Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh stressed the importance of public-private partnerships in health sector to cope up with the increasing demands on healthcare. He added that public sector can’t cope up with the healthcare requirement of huge country like India.

While inaugurating the first of Apollo’s Reach Hospitals at Karim Nagar via tele-link, Dr. Singh said it was the beginning of a new saga of enterprise and adventure to ensure provision of reliable, affordable and accessible care to all areas. With telemedicine at its core, the Apollo Reach Hospital model was an ideal example of an effective outreach programme. He expressed the hope that such efforts would multiply.

A new study has claimed that girls who tend to be closer to their fathers are most likely to choose men who look like their fathers, while boys who are closer to their mums, tend to choose women who resemble their mothers too.

The researchers have recently found out that this trait get inhibited in the genes itself. The matching of someone’s facial features to one’s opposite sex parent and to choose him or her as life partner is called “sexual imprinting.”