Health

Women opting for IVF treatment would soon get rid of the traumatic drug therapy, for the researchers from Oxford Fertility Unit have found that freezing the embryos can significantly reduce long-term health risks.

The researchers found a drastic improvement in the success rate of fertility treatment using frozen embryos.

The procedure reduces the need for repeated cycles of hormone therapy and egg extraction, which can be traumatic and result in serious side effects such as polycystic ovary syndrome.

Here’s some good news for women who find it hard to squeeze into their skinny jeans, courtesy their big bottoms: a generously proportioned derriere could be good for health, say scientists.

Accord to research, the fat in buttocks and hips may protect against type 2 diabetes.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School in America reckon that the type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may offer some protection against developing the condition.

Eating broccoli can significantly reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, say researchers.

The leafy vegetable along with other cruciferous vegetables, such as kale, cauliflower and cabbage, contains chemicals that prevent a number of different cancers.

However, now experts have discovered that the compound in broccoli can actually kill breast cancer cells.

University of California researchers have revealed for the first time how the healing power of these vegetables works in the cells, reports the Daily Express.

The study has been published in the journal Carcinogenesis.

Infecting dengue virus-carrying mosquitoes with bacteria that halves the insects'' lifespans can significantly help limit the spread of the fever that effects millions around the world, say researchers.

Conventional methods for controlling the spread of disease caused by Aedes aegytpi mosquitoes, such as using bed nets and draining wetlands, often prove ineffective as they bite during the day and flourish in urban areas.

Scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have announced the identification of a mechanism behind the development of clumps of aggregated proteins inside cells, a hallmark of Parkinson''s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

The researchers say that the build up of these clumps, also known as Lewy bodies, may be prevented by targeting a survival circuit called MEF2D, which is sensitive to the main component of Lewy bodies, a protein called alpha-synuclein.

Researchers from New York University Langone Medical Centre claim to have uncovered the potential cause of fatal seizures in viral meningitis.

In a study on mice with viral meningitis, the researchers found that these seizures are not caused by the virus itself, but by the immune system''s response to the infection.

During the study, the researchers injected the mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which is relatively harmless in humans with a healthy immune system.

A research team says that curing many genetic diseases will take much longer than expected, as understanding how mutations in the genetic code lead to these diseases will be much more complicated than previously believed.

Dr. Tim Nilsen, a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine''s Center for RNA Molecular Biology, came to this conclusion after studying an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing, a process by which single genes produce different proteins in different situations.

With the rise in the popularity of acupuncture as a pain-relief therapy, the U.S. Air Force is showing interest in the treatment.

The air force has plans to teach acupuncture early next year to the doctors who will be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dr. Richard Niemtzow, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Acupuncture, is the man behind the development of ‘battlefield acupuncture’.

A harmless virus, which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms, may trigger type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, who conducted the study, suggested that this "silent" Human parechovirus should be taken into consideration when looking for triggers for type 1 diabetes among those who are genetically at risk.

This study was conducted as part of a long-term project to examine if environmental risk factors affect type 1 diabetes.

Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have found that Prozac is not only effective in fighting depression, but also in dramatically enhancing the efficacy of a widely used anti-cancer drug.

Highlighting the fact that Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients being treated for cancer, the researchers have revealed that they undertook this study to find out whether the anti-depressant can help fight cancer itself.

Dr. Dan Peer, of the Department of Cell Research and Immunology at the university, says that his study provided promising results.