March 2016

El Nino, the climate cycle that develops along the tropical west coast of South America every 3 to 7 years, could be transporting cholera-like diseases through bacteria that thrive in seawater, a study said.

People who exercise regularly over several years were less than half as likely to become depressed after a heart attack than those who never exercised, finds a new study.

Software major Infosys on Tuesday announced tying up with Microsoft to offer healthcare analytics, using the latter's cloud platform.

The government will set up 3,000 new generic medicine stores across the country to tackle the shortage of drugs in rural areas, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday.

US researchers have found there is a relationship between prolonged stress and memory loss.The results of the study showed that those who were repeatedly exposed to stress had a trouble with spatial memory.

Low levels of vitamin D in men can predict aggressive prostate cancer identified at the time of surgery, new research has found.

An abortion drug, Mifepristone (MIF) can possibly have an anti-tumour effect in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the media reported on Tuesday.

Opening a new window of opportunity for treating dementia, researchers have found that a drug compound created to treat cancer can restore memory in mice with Alzheimer's like disease.