HEALTH & MEDICINE

The purity of crystal methamphetamine, also called ice, had gone up 20 per cent the past four years in Australia, according to Sam Biondo, head of the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association.

The advantage of eating healthy food is enormous, apart from the fact that you will be able to get all the extra pounds off your body.

Listening to one’s favourite music and songs can make you nostalgic and take you down the memory lane.

Health workers, including alcohol treatment providers, expressed concern that the prioritisation given to alcohol harm might not trickle to them especially on additional funding.

The wonder drug shows some indication to fight the viral outbreak.

A British couple named Brett and Nagmeh King were arrested in Malaga, Spain, after they took their five-year-old son with cancer, Ashya King, from a hospital in Britain without doctors' consent to seek advanced medical treatment.

Male addicts who were treated with methadone were found to have reduced levels of testosterone, according to a new study conducted by McMaster University in Canada, Science Daily News reported.

Normally, mashing a woman's breast would get the masher a sexual assault charge, or at the very least, a slap on the face courtesy of the owner of the mammary glands.

Dr Jauhar's book showing that the American medical profession is ill with greed has created shock waves.

Twenty-year-old Isabelle Roberts from Tipton, West Midlands, was rushed to the Russells Hall Hospital after dislocating her jaw when she screamed during the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday evening. The video showing her failed ice bucket challenge has gone viral and has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

Bad memories can be overwritten by manipulating the brain cells, thereby reversing the emotions attached to a memory.

Anita Wainwright, a mother of four from Birmingham, suffers from a rare medical condition, cataplexy, which causes her to have seizure and collapse every time she has heightened emotions like surprise, anger, sorrow, joy and orgasm during sexual intercourse.

Scarlett-Rose Davis, a 3-year-old toddler from Birmingham, who became a sensation after using the F-word during an ice bucket challenge, has apologised and said that she won't use such bad words again.

A three-man mobile laboratory team who were following findings contracted the deadly Ebola virus.

Research shows that bad recall can be banished with some smart string-pulling.

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.

Find out what is Rubble Bucket Challenge trending now on social media networks.

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.

Ebola's experimental drug had raised many hopes.

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.

A research conducted by University of Huddersfield scientist Dr Olumayokun Olajide, who specializes in the anti-inflammatory properties of natural products, has found that a compound that is found in pomegranate can slow the development of Alzheimer's disease and its symptoms. Not just Alzheimer's it is seen to reduce the inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease.

Researchers from Arizona State University discovered the genetic recipe for lizard tail generation.

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

The experimental drug ZMapp to counter the deadly Ebola virus seemed to be working. Its first human recipients, American missionaries Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, have been discharged by Emory University Hospital. Both have been declared as virus-free, safe for release and ok to go home.

Even if their group has denied to give their participation to a government campaign, doctors in Canada remain against smoking marijuana, be it for medicinal purposes or not.

Without consulting to a Doctor 2000 teenagers daily using prescription drugs in US; cause of the injury death in US in 2010 was drug over dose.

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.

New study with 'shock-and-kill' was published in Cell journal that can flush out viral reservoirs in infected cells and later killed by boosted immune system leading to the possibility of no remission.