Placental abnormality may hold the key for early detection of autism, a study finds.
American researchers have linked an individual’s risk of becoming an alcoholic to his personality and parental alcoholism.
Offering a new ray of hope to infertile couples, researchers have now coaxed stem cells, from a mouse embryo, to produce both eggs and sperm in the same dish.
Researchers around the globe are looking for connections between osteoporosis, a bone-wasting disease that affects some 25 percent of the world’s over-50s, and a host of other ailments from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease.
Overdose of iron supplements to pregnant women who are not anaemic could lead to birth complications, says a new study.
Iron deficiency is common among women of childbearing age. Doctors recommend daily supplements of 60 to 120 mg of iron to prevent or correct anaemia and iron deficiency during pregnancy.
Researchers in a new study shed some light about the truth behind allergies, by reaching on the conclusion that excessively hygienic environments cause allergies and autoimmune disease.
A slight delay in clamping a baby’s umbilical cord, can find a solution for iron deficiency in children.
Pregnant women who work more than 32 hours each week in stressful jobs may produce babies lighter than the average birth weight, says a study.
Youth with bipolar disorder misread facial expressions as hostile and show heightened neural reactions when they focus on emotional aspects of neutral faces, researchers at the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered. The study provides some of the first clues to the underlying workings of the episodes of mania and depression that disrupt friendships, school, and family life in up to one percent of children.
Swedish researchers have discovered that the body produces its own internal antibiotic to help defend itself against urinary tract infections.