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Heart diseases increase because people think of attending to it after the holiday season is over as they do not want to spoil the festive mood. (Photo: Pixabay)

Heart-related deaths spike around Christmas

Many patients hold back in seeking medical care because it is the holiday season

23 Dec 2016 7:35 PM IST

The pain started with frequent headaches, slowly spreading to her ears and then to the right side of her body before she was operated. (Photo: Pixabay)

Tumor removed from woman's head in Bengaluru

The Iraqi woman came to Indian after her doctors said that the chances of her surviving the operation were very low

23 Dec 2016 6:14 PM IST

Women can orgasm more with social control

Women can orgasm more with social control

The difficulty in achieving an orgasm can be done by finding the right partner

23 Dec 2016 6:13 PM IST

In particular, significant changes were found in the expression of genes responsible for lipid metabolism (Photo: AFP)

Being overweight may cause changes to DNA

The scientists examined the blood samples of over 10,000 women and men from Europe.

23 Dec 2016 4:59 PM IST

The new ink can prevent inflammation and discomfort at the site of the tattoo made to cure cancer before the treatment starts. (Photo: Pixabay)

New tattoo ink may improve skin cancer treatment

The tattoo ink helps make the marks disappear after the treatment

23 Dec 2016 4:13 PM IST

Burger thought he had malaria but it was something much worse (Photo: AFP)

Doctors help man beat universally lethal disease

The disease is known to kill unless treated and kills quickly, hence Burger and the medical team were racing against...

23 Dec 2016 2:51 PM IST

Half of the grandparents who took care of their grandchildren were still alive about ten years after the first interview in 1990. (Photo: Pixabay)

People who care for others may live longer: study

Childless older adults who provided others with emotional support lived longer than most other people

23 Dec 2016 2:15 PM IST

The NGO decided to help people in Ladakh because their prosthetic requirements are different as they travel around in hilly areas. (Photo: Pixabay)

NGO helps 400 people in Ladakh walk again

With the help of a fundraiser, the trust is going to be distributing prosthetic legs, callipers, hearing aids and...

23 Dec 2016 1:13 PM IST

LAs Museum of Death, founded in 1995, has exhibits on serial killers and group suicides (Photo: AFP)

Bunnies, breast implants at LA's odd museums

The Museum of Broken Relationships has displays about the heartsick and lovelorn.

23 Dec 2016 10:42 AM IST

A sufficient dietary Vitamin D supplement can partially but significantly antagonise metabolic syndrome (Photo: AFP)

Good bacteria in gut restored by extra vitamin D

The main cause of metabolic syndrome appears to be a diet high in fat or carbohydrate.

23 Dec 2016 9:05 AM IST

In early 2014, a handful of infections in southern Guinea mushroomed rapidly into an epidemic (Photo: AFP)

WHO says new Ebola vaccine may be 100% effective

First identified in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola virus erupted periodically in...

23 Dec 2016 8:46 AM IST

The vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, underwent clinical trial involving 11,841 people in Guinea in 2015. (Photo: AFP)

Ebola vaccine coming soon?

The vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, was studied in a trial involving 11,841 people in Guinea during 2015.

23 Dec 2016 3:53 AM IST