Health Guide

You can fry, boil, bake, poach them or even consume them raw. Yes, I am talking about the highly popular breakfast items- ‘eggs’. Many would find their breakfast incomplete without eggs and what would happen to cakes, souffles, frittata and other…

All of us know that dogs have powerful sense of smell. Their world is a very complex, olfactory world. They are surrounded by a vast array of different things that we are hardly aware of. A recent research throws light on the fact that dogs can…

More women hit the snooze button on the ‘pregnancy alarm’ even as it keeps ringing, as they decide to postpone having babies at a later stage. What’s interesting to note is that complacency with the attitude of ‘what’s the…

The already poverty-and-drought-hit West Africa witnesses the sufferings of 25,000 to 2,00,000 people from meningitis epidemic every year.

Its spatial distribution is thus named “Meningitis Belt” — and are said to be closely linked to climatic…

Hygiene is an important “buzzword” for a healthy lifestyle. But, this is causing health problems, in turn, for over-hygienic people. Though it seems a little confusing to fathom out on how can this happen, the reasons are a bit…

Measles, once perceived as a common childhood disease in Canada, but thought to have been conquered, has reappeared in the Montreal area again. The public health department has issued a warning to Quebecers to make sure they have their vaccine up to…

If you are a person who has a penchant for nuts, then you should count yourself lucky. Scientific evidence suggests that consuming various kinds of nuts such as pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, macademia nuts, peanuts, walnuts, cashew nuts can be of immense…

Anti-cancer drugs called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have been shown to enhance long-term memory, according to scientists at the University of California Irvine.

The drug is reported to improve long-term memory and strengthen…

A new study claims that postmenopausal females may be able to reduce their blood pressure and the level of cholesterol by just eating soy nuts.

High blood pressure attack nearly 50 million Americans and nearly 1 billion people throughout the…

According to a new study — it is found that omega-3 fatty acids can provide help in reducing blood pressure of a man.

Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, professor emeritus of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, who…