Men and women with an increased waist size are at a high risk of developing cardiac disease, a new study carried out by America’s Kaiser Permanente health charity has revealed.

People, especially adults over 50, taking anti-heartburn drugs for long periods are at a higher risk of getting their hips fractured, a new study carried out by Pennsylvania researchers in Britain rev

A team of researchers from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute has discovered a system in the brain that can block alcohol abuse, providing hope for those drunkards who intend to stop their craving fo

The presence of CETP VV, a variant of the gene responsible for longevity, CETP, has been found to enable people to keep their memory intact and remember things clearly even in old age. These are the l

Meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring have been declared to be safe for consumption by the federal scientists, Larisa Rudenko and John C. Matheson. They concluded saying that there was no basis to differentiate the food products from the cloned animals from normal animals.

Hours after being tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, an Egyptian woman passed away on Sunday.

With the death of the 30-year-old woman, who was admitted to Cairo's Abbasiya fever

Alarmed by its high rate of HIV infection, India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday announced an unusual plan that makes it mandatory for couples to take a HIV test before marrying.

After a brief lull, bird flu is back in Asia. Different Asian countries have gone ahead and put themselves on high alert following a reported fresh outbreak among the poultry in South Korea. This outbreak comes after a quiet period of around three months.

Piergiorgio Welby died on Wednesday after his doctor, Mario Riccio gave him an intravenous cocktail of sedatives and switched off the life support system that had kept him alive for nine years. Welby had advanced muscular dystrophy and was confined to bed.

A global influenza pandemic, as fatal as the 1918 Spanish flu, could kill at least 62 million people worldwide, despite the state-of-the-art development in medical field, a team of researchers estimat