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Daily magnesium intake may be beneficial in preventing pancreatic cancer, researchers from Indiana University (IU) have found.

Vices such as AIDS and drug addiction are against the Indian tradition and should be tackled effectively, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha said in her address on the eve of the state's Liberation Day.

With nearly 5.2 million medical injuries recorded each year in India, an Assam professor, who recently lost his wife due to "utter callousness" of doctors has begun spreading awareness about medical negligence which he claims has acquired "endemic proportions" in the country.

In a rare surgery, a 26-year-old youth saved his father's life by donating a portion of his liver in spite of having a different blood group, hospital officials said on Saturday.

A researcher from George Washington University is exploring the possibility of using a new technique for human reproduction and its ethical and practical implications.

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Chronic alcohol use, when combined with repeated binge drinking, causes more damage to the liver than previously thought, says an Indian-origin researcher from University of Missouri-Columbia.

Gene variants linked to cell senescence or biological ageing, autoimmunity, and Alzheimer's disease play an important role in determining whether we would live over 100 years or not, new research has found.

A diet high on fat but very low on carbohydrates which is generally favoured by body-builders may be effective in treating schizophrenia, new research has found.

A drug currently used to treat patients with osteoporosis can protect stem cells from ageing, a breakthrough study has found.

Heart disease and stroke were the number one and number two killers worldwide in 2013, reveals a new report.