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The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person's vision slightly, a new study has found. The human eye includes an unavoidable blind spot. That is because the optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain must pass through the retina, which creates a hole in that light-sensitive layer of tissue.

Staying up late and not getting six hours of sleep puts one at high risk of becoming a Type-II diabetic, a disease once believed to be caused primarily by being overweight, prominent diabetes experts say.

A whopping 66.11 percent of Indian children possess "abnormal levels of sugar" in their body, reveals a new nationwide three-year-long survey, the results of which were released here on Friday.

Of the eight million cancer deaths worldwide in 2012, five million occurred in middle-income countries and 500,000 in low-income countries, says a new study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

The rate of new HIV infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to violent conflict in a country, says a new study. The researchers looked into the relationship between bloodshed and HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa.

Children of poverty stricken families suffer lags in brain development and score as much as 20 per cent lower on cognitive tests, a new study has found. Low-income children had atypical structural brain development and lower standardised test scores, with as much as an estimated 20 per cent in the achievement gap explained by development lags in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, researchers said. Socioeconomic disparities in school readiness and academic performance are well documented but little is known about the mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the biggest causes of preventable blindness among Indian adults, doctors said. Calling diabetes an uncontrolled disease in India with 65 million cases, the doctors say that at least 40 percent of the severe diabetics will suffer from diabetic retinopathy if steps are not taken to control it.

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It may appear counterintuitive but including a little bit of sweets in your meal could help you stop gaining unhealthy weight, new research suggests.

An experimental drug aimed at combating Alzheimer's disease has a host of unexpected anti-ageing effects in animals, a new study says. To combat the disease, the drug targets Alzheimer's major risk factor - old age.

If you are a diabetic, having diets rich in potassium may help you protect the heart and kidney health, says a new study. Individuals with Type-2 diabetes are at increased risk of developing kidney failure and heart disease.