Health Guide

Crowded living conditions, be it of public housing or jails, has always been an issue of revolt for human rights. Now, it seems, the staph bacteria is taking due advantage of the conditions in poor Chicago neighborhood.

These superbugs — called…

The World Health Organization has issued a stern warning to all the countries in the world to band smoking at public places. Smoking is the root cause of many ills.

According to WHO, use of tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death,…

Coffee and tea, two beverages we all just love to sip. Now science is giving tea and coffee aficionados around the world all the more reasons to drink these two popular beverages. Many health benefits have been attributed to the regular, sensible…

Have you ever gobbled chocolates after chocolates to get over your depression? Do you seek food as a retreat from your stressful mundane? Then you need not worry, there are many around the world who will be on your side and there will be many who will…

Pesticides that we use to kill pests are actually; conspiring against us, by increasing our susceptibility to paralyzing disease Parkinson’s, up to 40 per cent. A new study, which is stated to be first of its kind, came out heralding this stunning..

The goodness of soy foods is well known. Soy foods contain phytochemicals that are known to prevent heart diseases and cancer. Now, researchers have found that munching half a cup of soy nuts could lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women.

A…

Drug-resistant bacteria are transmitting to more people in community settings such as hospitals, prisons and public housing. Such “super bugs” can run rampant, researchers warned.

Researchers at a Chicago hospital found a seven-fold increase…

Teachers and students at a school in Wales are being offered anti-bird flu drugs after being in contact with a child suspected of contracting H7N2 virus.

The school staff is being treated with antiviral medication as a precaution, the…

A paradox in itself, an infection can prevent the victim for the same! Researchers have recently found that blood infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus can help protect from several strains of the virus itself in return.

In the research, the…

If everything goes on smoothly then days are not far away when you will be able to have skim milk straight from the udder, as researchers in New Zealand are trying hard to develop a dairy herd that would naturally produce low-fat milk by 2011….