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London. According to new research, being too clean may increase the risk of diabetes.
Researchers in Britain have carried out the study and found that a lack of exposure to bacteria and viruses during childhood may lead to an increased chance of high blood sugar and related diseases.
The University of Bristol study, which is [...]

Washington. Pregnant women may quit smoking, with the help of proper physical exercise!
It’s said in a study that smoking during pregnancy often leads to lower birth weight, higher infant imortality and is linked to learning difficulties and asthma in childhood.
Michael Ussher and colleagues from St George’s, University of London conducted two pilot studies into [...]

Kolkata. Turmeric, not only lowers your chances of getting cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, but may reduce the size of a hemorrhage  stroke, US researchers have discovered.
According to the Medical College  of Georgia researchers, patients with this type of stroke are often treated for symptoms such as headache and nausea with medications, but not the [...]

London.  Adults who were near the World Trade Center around the time it was attacked in 2001 have been twice as likely to develop asthma as the general population, a new analysis of public health registry data has found.
The study of data from the World Trade Center Health Registry, released by the city’s Department of [...]

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Washington. Expectant moms who ate the most fish—more than three servings a week—were 30 percent more likely to have children with higher developmental scores at 18 months of age compared with those whose mothers ate less than a serving a week. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has published a new Harvard University study regarding this.
The [...]

Melbourne.   Australian law students suffer high levels of depression; a recent Australian study has reveled.
A large national study of law students and practitioners has confirmed that they are facing a lot of psychological distress and the rate is much higher than medical students or other general students.
The study was conducted by the University of [...]