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Mind-body therapies can help teens with anxiety

Mind-body therapies encompass self-regulation and positive thinking to help promote self-control, physical health, and...

27 July 2018 11:00 AM IST

In some cases, healthy siblings might experience depression or anxiety or feel like parents are giving the sick child preferential treatment (Photo: Pixabay)

Healthy children tend to conceal emotions if they have sick siblings

Healthy siblings were also unlikely to voice any problems of their own if they worried about burdening or angering their...

27 July 2018 10:08 AM IST

Sources said the syndicate may again try to send its ganja (dried buds, leaves and stems of the cannabis plant).

UK doctors get green light to prescribe cannabis

Home Secretary Sajid Javid decided to relax rules about circumstances in which medicinal cannabis can be given to...

26 July 2018 8:38 PM IST

Home blood pressure monitoring in pregnancy reduces hospital blood pressure visits by 50 percent without increasing complications. (Photo: Pixabay)

Lowering blood pressure cut risk of memory decline: Study

It found that people whose blood pressure was lowered to below 120 had a 19 percent lower rate of new cases of mild...

26 July 2018 7:17 PM IST

A Mediterranean-style diet, called MIND, may lower your risk of developing cognitive impairment. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mediterranean diet might help ease psoriasis

The study found no association between diet and the onset of psoriasis.

26 July 2018 7:06 PM IST

Some pregnant women also avoid sex because theyre worried about harming the foetus (Photo: AFP)

Opioids tied to bad sex life and lack of desire

When people do take opioids, they should work with their doctor to make the medication dose as low as possible to reduce...

26 July 2018 6:26 PM IST

Late-onset diabetes may be an early indicator of pancreatic cancer or a factor that contributes to its development.

Long work week may up diabetes risk for women

Exercise breaks, or getting lots of activity outside work, or other lifestyle decisions might potentially help.

26 July 2018 6:20 PM IST

Earlier studies had shown significant abnormalities in the white matter in the brains of people who had experienced child abuse (Photo: AFP)

Childhood abuse linked to endometriosis risk

It may be a stress response to the trauma that activates these systems and causes a woman to be more sensitive to pain.

26 July 2018 6:12 PM IST

People taking antibiotics can develop resistance and experience gastrointestinal distress since antibiotics kill both bad and good bacteria in the gut (Photo: AFP)

Tickborne diseases likely to increase: Study

The full findings are present in the journal- New England Journal of Medicine.

26 July 2018 6:06 PM IST

Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

Hormone that prevents chemotherapy side-effects identified

Because follistatin is a hormone already found in the human body, there is much less potential for toxicity.

26 July 2018 5:35 PM IST

He doesnt like the way he is treated as younger people disrespect him and consider him stupid (Photo: Pixabay)

Narcolepsy makes man spend thousands on toiletries without even being...

Although Mark is worried about it since he doesn't have any money to spend like that, the society's apathy doesn't help.

26 July 2018 4:28 PM IST

Safety concerns may lead to poor adherence and discontinuation of asthma medications during pregnancy. (Photo: Pixabay)

Multiple pregnancies make women's cells age faster

Cellular ageing was accelerated by between 0.5 and 2 years for each additional pregnancy.

26 July 2018 2:38 PM IST