WASHINGTON – A study involving chocolate milkshakes is helping scientists get a better understanding of how the brain influences obesity, with genes playing a role, too.
WASHINGTON – A study involving chocolate milkshakes is helping scientists get a better understanding of how the brain influences obesity, with genes playing a role, too.
ATHENS - Nearly half of all Greeks believe that there is nothing much people can do to reduce one's chances of contracting cancer, according to a recent study.
BANGALORE - On a computer monitor in his office in the high-tech hub of Bangalore, Indian radiologist Arjun Kalyanpur examines a scan of the skull of a six-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle.
WASHINGTON - Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ. Now doctors are trying new ways to outwit the immune system and save more of those so-called 'highly sensitized' patients — often with kidneys donated by living donors, considered the optimal kind.
PARIS - Gene detectives on Sunday said they had netted two genetic variants that, together, boost the risk of male baldness sevenfold.
BAGHDAD - Baghdad's mentally ill people, their numbers swollen by the trauma of living under Saddam Hussein, remain sadly neglected despite many promises of help by US representatives.
NEW YORK - People who undergo liver transplantation, particularly children, are at increased risk for developing cancer, Finnish researchers report in the journal Liver Transplantation.
SYDNEY- Pregnancy has long been blamed for addling women's minds but new work by Australian researchers finds this idea may be nothing more than an old wive's tale.
Hamburg - Finally, you've lost the 15 kilograms you had hoped to lose, your body has emerged healthy and more agile and that dress that gathers at the waist fits you again.
WASHINGTON - Do not give over-the-counter cold remedies to kids under 4, drug companies said on Tuesday.