Washington :   The harmful combination of high alcohol intake and high body mass index (BMI) causes an increased risk of chronic liver disease, a new study has found. The study analysed a cohort of over 107,000 women to investigate how a female’s [...]

Washington :  Drinking two or more cups of coffee daily could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurring in patients taking the widely used drug Tamoxifen, a study at Lund University in Sweden has suggested. In the study, patients who took [...]

Washington :  Your drink would warm more than twice as much in humid weather compared to in dry heat, according to University of Washington climate scientists. Because in sultry weather condensation on the outside of a canned beverage doesn’t [...]

Washington :  Harvard researchers have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting millions of people. The researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute [...]

Washington :  A synthetic form of vitamin D, calcipotriol (a drug already approved by the FDA for the treatment of psoriasis), could be a potential new therapy for liver fibrosis, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have [...]

Washington :  Infection with nematodes (also known as roundworms) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders, a study in mouse model has found. Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, [...]

London :   Fasting twice a week could be the key to a longer life by slashing the risk of a host of killer diseases, a new study has revealed. Research shows dramatically cutting the amount of calories you eat for two days can keep obesity, [...]

Washington :  Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to share Silicon Valley’s most expensive cup of coffee, it has been revealed. Sometime in the next year, Cook will sit down for a cup of coffee with someone who has paid at least 210,000 dollars for [...]

Karachi :  Dr Quratul Ain Hyder, Consultant Radiologist passed away on Friday. Dr. Nusrat Iqbal, central president Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) female branch and central executive committee offered deep condolence on the sad [...]

Karachi :  Around two million people are completely blind in Pakistan, where blindness rate is 1.08 per cent. In Sindh, about 340000 people are suffering from blindness, while cataract and diabetes are the major causes of blindness. By birth [...]