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Excess intake of salt or sodium is extremely harmful to health and can cause stomach cancer, strokes, heart ailments, high blood pressure and gastric ulcers among many other health related problems.

Autistic children have extra synapses in their brain and using a specific drug restores synaptic pruning and in turn might be able to reverses autistic-like-behavior in human beings as reported by the U.S. neuroscientists in the Neuron journal.

Sonia Kruger, who announced over the weekend that she is 16-weeks pregnant, after conceiving through IVF, said in a recent interview that she is paranoid of losing her baby.

Prolonged obesity and the habit of overeating over a period of time causes structural changes in the brain. A study revealed that this leads to the damage of signaling pathways in the hypothalamus in the brain, the part that regulates metabolism.

Jennifer Aniston is not in favor of cosmetic surgery to stay ageless but prefers to age naturally.

Having a hectic schedule and a busy lifestyle reduces the desire of having sexual intercourse or love making, sex therapists said. Decrease in sexual urge due to busy schedule is a universal problem.

Camel milk with extreme high in iron, vitamin, protein and calcium, might cure diabetes, autism and few types of allergies. It is easily digestible for those who are lactose intolerance.

Few career-oriented professional women in New York gathered at a first-of-its-kind "egg freezing" party last week. The get-together was sponsored by a company called EggBanxx. The purpose was to discuss about a scientific method to freeze their eggs to use it later when they decide to reproduce.

Zosia Russell Mamet, or Zosia Mamet, popularly known as the Girls star revealed in the current issue of Glamour magazine that she has had weight issues and has been struggling with an eating disorder since childhood.

Erection problems, mostly faced by older men, can now be avoided by having sex more often. This can reduce the risks of erectile dysfunction or developing erectile problems to a great extent.

A two drug combination can help overweight people lose weight and curb obesity. It was revealed in a study conducted by researchers at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

The death of 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams, who allegedly committed suicide in his California home Monday, has raised several questions on mental health and well being. Debates and theories about dealing with depression are being discussed since that is being cited as the main reason for Robin Williams’ suicide.

Digital literacy, which includes activities such as internet or web browsing, and emailing, can improve memory, revealed a study conducted by researchers at the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina in Brazil.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have created a molecule that causes cancer cells to self-destruct and die by injecting salt into them.

Soft drinks, fruit juice and other sports beverages with high levels of acid can lead to permanent tooth decay or tooth erosion, revealed a study conducted by the Craniofacial Biology Research Group at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Seven-month-old baby Gammy's Australian parents, David and Wendy Farnell, who are accused of abandoning him after discovering that he had Down syndrome, face the possibility of human trafficking charges in Thailand. Gammy was born through a Thai surrogacy deal to Thai mother Pattaramon Chanbua.

Brain cancer or brain tumour is the most common type of disease found in children across the globe. It kills approximately 30 children ever year in Australia, according to a recent study.

Playing computer or video games for not more than an hour per day is beneficial to children and results in children being emotionally happier. They are also able to better adjust in their social environment, reveals a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics.

While the treatment and survival rate of patients with cancer have dramatically improved since the past 40 years, pancreatic cancer survival has shown very little improvement in four decades. It has the lowest survival rate in 40 years with only three per cent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for a maximum of five years after the diagnosis.

A benign tumour has been removed from the hip of 16-year-old Jack Campanile without surgery or radiation. The tumour was removed using a “cutting-edge heat procedure” that makes invasive surgery unnecessary.

Youngsters in Australia, removing their tattoos through surgeries is on an alarming high, reveals a research conducted by the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia or CPSA.

Foster parents have been asked to stop sharing their bed with infants by Alberta's child advocate after a six-week old baby, being referred to as Baby Dawn was found dead in her foster parents bed.

Consuming five servings of fruits and vegetables can lower death risks, says a new study conducted by researchers from China and USA. The results, published in the British Medical Journal aimed to find out the “dose response” or how much we need to eat in connection with cancer, heart illnesses and death.

Stress filled jobs, such as service industry and blue collar jobs can increase the risk of heart attack and other heart ailments, said U.S. health officials and researchers at Harvard.

An Australian man, who abandoned his newborn surrogate child Gammy in Thailand after discovering that the baby had Down Syndrome, was earlier convicted of child sex offences in Australia.

Pregnant women who experience morning sickness are likely to have healthy, and intelligent babies, with a lower chance of miscarriage, says a study conducted by researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Canada. The findings were published in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.

Thirty-three-year-old Tani Jex Blake, mother of five, from Alberta, Canada, has written an open letter on Facebook, intended for the two men and a woman who mocked her for the stretch marks on her belly. The letter has gone viral, and has also made it to the headlines of all leading newspapers in Canada, and around the world.

An Australian couple abandoned their new born baby boy (Gammy) with his surrogate Thai mother when they discovered that the child has Down Syndrome. However, they took home his twin sister, who was born healthy.

42-year-old Claudine Michelle Herewini, from Raetihi, was jailed for four years and eleven months after her son Antony Christensen was killed with a lethal dose of methadone that she had given him to cure his sore stomach.