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A team of Japanese researchers has decoded the mechanism behind what accelerates ageing in smokers.

Overturning conventional wisdom, a new study has found that sitting for long, either at home or at work, is not associated with an increased risk of an early death, especially if you are otherwise physically active.

Even as Delhi grapples with dengue crisis, health experts have warned that citizens may next be confronted with the deadly swine flu, which is likely to hit the national capital with change of season. “The swine flu carrier, the H1N1 influenza virus, is prone to appear when the temperatures dip and winter arrives. The issue is that the disease spreads through air and not via a vector, as in dengue, and thus transmission is more rapid.

Around 55,000 retail chemists and pharmacists in Maharashtra joined the day-long nationwide strike on Wednesday called by All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), demanding a ban on online sale of medicines, an official said.

More than 5,000 chemists across Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday joined the nation-wide strike to demand action by the centre against the online sale of medicine.

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Increasing insulin dose to manage diabetes is unlikely to deteriorate your heart's health, suggests new research.

A total of 106 people have died because of dengue in Taiwan, while 23,821 have been infected since May this year, authorities said on Wednesday.

A private Chinese biotechnology company plans to mass produce a vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese military scientists.

The union health ministry will issue guidelines to the Delhi government on control of swine flu including on vaccination, infection control and standard treatment protocols, an official release said here on Tuesday.

Due to discovery of new immune system biomarker by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and the University of Oxford, scientists are now better able to predict how quickly the HIV virus will return after individuals stop treatment. The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.