Our ancestors didn’t sleep for eight hours a night. Scientists say they were as much sleep deprived as we are in our modern day life inclined more on technology. Scientists studied the sleep of three current preindustrial societies – the San tribe from Namibia, the Hadza of Tanzania and the […]

It is usual saying sitting will kill you. However, a new study does not agree to this. It says body movement is important either you are doing sitting job or standing job. Details of the finding are published in Tuesday’s edition of the International Journal of Epidemiology. It writes sitting […]

If your kid is below two years old, giving asthma steroids is risky. It will suppress the growth of height in later part of life, says a new study. Researchers from Finland studied data of more than 12,000 Finish babies from zero to 24 months of age and said the […]

A new mobile app tracked the eating and drinking habit of 150 Americans and found people have forgotten three square meals and have opted to eat all the day long, even more than 15 hours a day. Details of the study are published in the September 24 issue of Cell […]

One of the oldest drugs, Salsalate, is found to be effective in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease too apart from being prescribed for Arthritis. In a new experiment conducted on mice in laboratory researchers in the US found the drug prevented building up of toxic proteins in the brain and […]

British researchers have come up with a study that says 1/3rd of babies born in 2015 to develop dementia in their life, either sooner or later. They also say there is a need for new treatments to it to tackle the condition. The early symptoms of dementia are finding difficulty […]