According to statistics, approximately half of population in UK suffers from back pain.

The recent research in Britain has shown that a 100-year-old relaxation method known as 'Alexander Technique' is very helpful in curing chronic back pain.

Under this technique, patients learn proper ways of sitting, standing and walking. It has been named after its founder, Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander.

Researchers from Stanford University have devised a method that could help in reducing side effects of chemotherapy. Researchers also claim that this method will increase effectiveness of chemotherapy.

Researchers affirm that the use of carbon nanotubes in chemotherapy for cancer patients has shown great results. Moreover, with the help of this method, same work can be accomplished with less amount of medicine.

Nanotubes can deliver drugs to tumor cells more precisely as compared to existing treatments. As medicine is directly injected into tumor cells so there are less chances of spilling of medicine into healthy cells.

Medical experts around the world advise regular intake of fruits for healthy body. Intake of fruits is considered essential for the proper growth of children.

A recent report by the School Food Trust has shown that one in seven British kids don’t eat fruits.

The report also showed that 1.7 million kids in the UK never ate fruits.

According to health recommendations children should eat five fruits in a day.

A recent study has claimed that to get an idea about a man’s temperament, study his face closely.

The study says that if a man has a rounder face, he might be more aggressive too.

The reason, which the international team has put forward is that if male sex hormones, testosterone are produced in abundance, the face gets rounder too, thus the behavior of men which depends upon testosterone gets more aggressive.

The study done by researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has shown that boys grow out asthma when they reach adulthood.

Researchers analyzed the data collected from 1,041 children, aged 5 to 12 years with mild to moderate persistent asthma. These children were given different doses of methacholine depending of severity of the asthma.  Annual spirometry tests with methacholine to measure the responsiveness of their airways were done. Researchers found that amount of methacholine required for boys increased with the passage of the time while dosage remained standard for girls for more time. This study showed that asthma was getting better in boys.

Harare - Striking hospital doctors in Zimbabwe vowed to stay off the job until government acceded to their demands for better pay conditions to help cushion them against the effects of 11.3 million per cent inflation.

The nationwide strike began Wednesday over the doctors demands to be paid in foreign currency instead of the nearly worthless Zimbabwe dollar.

Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (HDA) chairman Amon Siveregi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the doctors would continue the industrial action until government came to the table.