London, Apr 18 : Is your expanding waistline giving you nightmares? Well, take heart. Researchers have found that a breakfast of muesli with milk, tinned peaches and yoghurt can help weight loss.

Experts at the University of Nottingham suggest that the low GI breakfast with apple juice helps the body break down fat better than a high Glycaemic Index start to the day of sugary cereal and white toast, reports The Daily Express.

Oslo  - Eleven mainly African countries are to be offered cheaper, more effective malaria drugs as part of a partnership between international agencies and governments, officials said Friday.

Benin, Cambodia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda are the first countries to take part of the programme - launched in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Washington, Apr 17 : A protein called PCSK9, which regulates `bad' cholesterol in the blood, has been found to work almost exclusively outside cells, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre.

The finding could provide clues for the development of therapies to block the protein''s disruptive actions.

"The fact that it works mostly extracellularly provides more opportunities to develop different kinds of therapies," said Dr. Jay Horton, professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics and co-author of the study.

Washington, April 17 : Researchers at Université de Montréal have successfully produced a large quantity of laboratory stem cells from a small number of blood stem cells obtained from bone marrow.

The research team, led by Dr. Guy Sauvageau, has taken a giant step towards the development of a revolutionary treatment based on these stem cells.

Washington, April 17: Experiments on rats conducted by researchers at the University of Puerto Rico have shown that isolation during early development alters the brain sensitivity to cocaine.

Researchers Natasha Lugo-Escobar, Nicole Carreras, and Annabell C. Segarra say that they wanted to study the impact of stressful early life events like social isolation on rats' response to cocaine.

Washington, Apr 17: People who have easy access to stores, transit stops and sidewalks are two times more likely to be physically active than those without these amenities, says a new study.

The study led by San Diego State University has shown that access to sidewalks is the most important factor for physical activity, possibly because people use them for recreation like jogging and in-line skating as well as for transportation.

"Our study had a great deal of variation in neighborhoods," said lead author Dr James Sallis, a professor at the San Diego State University.