HEALTH

Scientists have created the first artificial human ovary with the ability to mature human eggs, outside the human body. A tremendous advancement from the test tube baby, this provides a potentially powerful means for conducting fertility research and could also offer solutions to many a cancer patient.

British doctors urge men above age 60 to enroll themselves for a national screening program for prostate cancer. The $15 prostate specific antigen test would rule out the risk in half of the male population and allow doctors to concentrate their scarce resources on those most susceptible to developing and dying from the condition, The Daily Telegraph reported.

It's quite common to find many people - not just children - to fear needles. Dr. Deborah Wiebe, a US health psychologist says for most people these are manageable fears that can be addressed through a variety of simple pain-management strategies.

A new study in the US says physically fit children in the age group 9-10 tend to be brainier and often do better in memory tests, as compared to their less fit peers. The study was based on how effectively children used oxygen while running on a treadmill.

Sexual problems appear to be more distressful to men after prostate-removal surgery than urinary problems do, a new long-term follow-up study shows.

While more and more Americans regard mental illness as a disease rooted in the brain, that doesn't mean they are getting more tolerant of those who suffer from it.

Recently researches have been carried out to determine the extent to which our brain functions are impacted by our surroundings. The findings, published in the journal NeuroImage, show that serene environmental scenes with natural features

Researchers at Glasgow University, Scotland have found that since the ban in the country of smoking in enclosed public places in 2006 cases of childhood asthma

Low-carb diets are not similar to each other, according to a new Boston study. Your health may depend on what you have with it.

For the first time in the world, a study has examined how good habits have a multiplying effect on mortality in Asian women. The study results are that smoking husbands are shortening their wives' lives. Other results of the study include that Chinese women with plenty of healthy habits tend to live longer than their friends with less healthy lifestyles.

An ad by a U.S. non-profit group is creating some doubts about linkage between heart disease deaths and fast-food. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's ad has a woman sobbing. She has clasped the hand of a dead man lying in a morgue.

Amongst the food-borne diseases, poultry has been found to be the leading cause in the U.S. This is followed by green leafy vegetables and beef, which cause severe food poisoning and other stomach ailments, says a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have found that repeated use of antibiotics can play havoc with your gut's natural flora culture. They change the composition of the good germs found in our stomach.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA) smokeless tobacco products are not really safe alternatives to smoking and can actually lead to certain types of cancers.

According to a study published in the journal Neurology, White Americans with muscular dystrophy, a debilitating muscular disease, tend to live longer than their African American counterparts. They can live up to 12 years longer. Muscular dystrophy is an inherited disease where muscle fibers slowly degenerate and are vulnerable to damage and get weak progressively. The death mainly occurs due to r...

Progeria is a rare genetic disorder - only 65 cases in the world - where a child's aging process is accelerated and he or she dies of aging related disease like stroke and heart attack. Life expectancy is about 13 years.

Last summer, the leaders of some of the world's top drugmakers buttonholed Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan and tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to change his mind.

Young adults who have a hand in making their own meals may not eat much better than those who leave dinner to someone else, a new study suggests.

Mild memory problems in older people are often excused as senior moments, but a new study has found the same changes in the brain that cause severe dementia may also be responsible for those memory lapses.

Routine prostate cancer screening does not appear to help men live longer, according to a new study that pooled the best available data on the controversial topic.

A swine flu virus infecting a woman in Singapore mutated into a drug-resistant form virtually overnight, doctors reported in a study that they say shows the limitations of using drugs to treat influenza.

Depression is fairly common among parents of children younger than 12, with the risk being greatest in their children's first year of life, a new study suggests.

Think you're popular? Well, name a friend. It turns out that this person is probably more popular than you, a tendency that scientists might be able to use to predict the spread of disease.

One in six people who develop Parkinson's disease early (before age 40 or 50) carry a genetic mutation known to be associated with the neurological disorder, new research suggests.

Atomic bomb blast victims lucky enough to survive one cancer have a high risk of developing a second, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, in a study that offers new insights about cancer risks from radiation exposure.

Investing in smoking cessation treatments saves lives and it may be sound fiscal policy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

A push to protect millions of children against preventable diseases has hit financial trouble, with private donations for vaccines falling short, new figures released on Tuesday showed.

Deaths from complications during pregnancy and childbirth have fallen by a third in the past two decades but 1,000 women still die needlessly every day, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

In a taste of things to come, food scientists say they have cooked up a way of using nanotechnology to make low-fat or fat-free foods just as appetizing and satisfying as their full-fat fellows.