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What has pancake to do with glaucoma? According to researchers, understanding the textures and patterns of pancakes can help them improve surgical methods for treating glaucoma.

The tendency to take more stress during youth may increase the risk of developing high blood pressure later in life, suggests a study.Also, stressed youths who are overweight are three times more likely to develop high blood pressure, showed the findings, published online in the journal Heart.

Meditation eases anxiety, fatigue and pain for women undergoing breast cancer biopsies, new research says.Researchers from the Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, US found that during such period even music is effective, but only to a lesser extent.

Using body mass index (BMI) to gauge health is a wrong practice as it is a deeply flawed measure, reveals a study while adding that BMI should not be the primary goal for maintaining good health.

c in the gut increases the risk of colon cancer the second-largest cause of cancer death in the US by as much as 500 percent, says a new study.

Children with childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder of children are at a high risk of developing obesity, a new study has found.

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Chronic viral infections like CMV, HSV-2 or toxoplasma can contribute to subtle mental deterioration in apparently healthy older adults, a study has revealed.

The widespread belief that radiations from X-rays and CT scans can cause cancer has flaws and is based on an unproven theoretical model, suggests a study.

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Parkinson's patients are prone to a higher risk of injurious falls and hip fractures, a study reveals.The disease, which breaks down specific nerve cells and is usually diagnosed at around the age of 70, has an insidious onset affecting mobility and balance at first that can be traced to at least two decades back, the study said.

Researchers have found that depriving cancer cells of an essential nutrient could offer a promising new approach for the treatment of an aggressive form of kidney cancer.