All you need to know about Zika virus
NEW YORK-- Outbreaks of Zika virus, a mosquito-borne vector, were first reported from the Pacific in 2007 and 2013 (Yap and French Polynesia respectively)...
How app helped rural Indian women use modern contraceptives
WASHINGTON-- A unique smartphone app developed by an Indian-American researcher from the Johns Hopkins University has helped married rural women in India better understand...
Biological Origin of Schizophrenia
By PAUL GOLDSMITH
Harvard Gazette
The risk of schizophrenia increases if a person inherits specific variants in a gene related to “synaptic pruning”—the elimination of connections...
Feeling depressed or hopeless? Check with your brain, not heart
By Nishant Arora
NEW DELHI-- Have you started feeling depressed or moody while in love, lacking focus or motivation to finish a task at work...
Diet, exercise not enough to restore normal weight but mindfulness could
NEW YORK--Researchers at a US university have found the brains of obese children function differently from those children of healthy weight, and suggest that...
IMANE Women’s Forum to Host a Talk on Healing Relationships on March 20
BURLINGTON, MA—Women’s Forum of the Indian Medical Association of New England, known as IMANE, will host a talk on “Healing Relationships Through Energy Medicine...
No more insulin injections
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In patients suffering from Type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the pancreas, eventually leaving patients without the ability to naturally...
Female heart attacks: symptoms, treatments and the types of heart attacks
WASHINGTON-- The American Heart Association (AHA) has for the first time issued a scientific statement on female heart attacks, underscoring knowledge gaps and outlining...
Diagnosing depression before it starts
CAMBRIDGE, MA - A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at...
Brush your teeth twice a day and revitalise your heart
By Vivek Singh Chauhan
NEW DELHI--What have brushing and cleaning your teeth to do with your heart? A lot, say health experts, suggesting that taking...
