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Video gaming addiction is hypothesized to be an excessive or compulsive use of computer games or video games, which interferes with a persons everyday life. (Photo: Pixabay)

Can video games help obese children lose weight?

When you don't intervene with kids who are overweight, often their health risk factors and health behaviors worsen over...

21 July 2018 7:14 PM IST

The exercise was designed to help train their mind to pivot from detailed attention to a more broad awareness. (Photo: Pixabay)

Daily exercise may cut heart attack risk even in polluted areas: Study

Moderate cycling for four or more hours per week cut risk for recurrent heart attack by 31 per cent.

21 July 2018 6:30 PM IST

The blood test measures a specific peptide to inform if a patient has the very earliest stages of Alzheimers. (Photo: Pixabay)

'Invisible' stool blood tied to increased risk of premature death'

Having blood in stool may be an early warning for a number of diseases, and could indicate the need for lifestyle...

21 July 2018 3:15 PM IST

The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mixing alcohol and drugs poses bigger unsafe sex risk for women

Men and women reported similar rates of unprotected sex, but men drank and used marijuana more often alone and in...

21 July 2018 3:08 PM IST

Humans are addicted to continuous social interactions and not to their smartphones. (Photo: Pixabay)

Study finds smartphone radiation may adversely affect memory in...

A unique feature of this study is the use of objectively collected mobile phone user data from mobile phone operators.

21 July 2018 2:39 PM IST

The care home resident has revealed she consumes at least one can of the soda a day. (Photo: Pixabay)

Diet soda may keep colon cancer from recurring: Study

Artificially sweetened drinks have a checkered reputation in the public because of health risks that have never really...

21 July 2018 2:34 PM IST

Instead of drinking milk or taking supplements to get adequate amounts of calcium, calcium-rich mineral water is an equally good source, researchers say. (Photo: Pixabay)

Dehydration can lower cognitive abilities: Study

Older people can dry out more easily because they often lose their sensation of thirst and their kidneys are less able...

21 July 2018 2:29 PM IST

Travelling over 2,500 miles to his boutique clinic in Beverley Hills, California, she was expecting to have to shell out more money on additional surgery. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mum's USD 19K nose job left her with discoloured 'beak', she used...

Shari Manchon noticed the tip of her nose felt 'frozen', and had turned a deep shade of purple-black within few days of...

21 July 2018 12:52 PM IST

Researchers focused on emotional reactivity - the sensitivity, intensity and duration of emotional responses associated with mood. (Photo: Pixabay)

Being in a bad mood could make you more productive

Researchers found being in a good mood may hamper time-keeping and organisational skills.

21 July 2018 10:43 AM IST

Tanya is still too scared to shave her other leg and waxes it instead (Photo: Pixabay)

Woman who nicked her leg has to get it amputated after it got infected

After enduring agony for months, Tanya agreed to have her leg amputated from above the knee.

20 July 2018 7:45 PM IST

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

Shocking: You can get pregnant, while pregnant

Called superfetation, it is rare phenomenon where woman's egg is fertilised by sperm while another egg is already...

20 July 2018 3:42 PM IST

The MDACS has informed all blood banks in the city that all blood donors who have tested positive for HIV have to regularly visit these centres for further treatment.

India sees major reductions in HIV infections: UN report

Joint UN Agency on AIDS (UNAIDS) report warned epidemic was growing in Pakistan.

20 July 2018 11:00 AM IST