The investigators from the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre have discovered a unique link between the brain iron levels along with serotonin, it works as a neurotransmitter that are responsible for certain neuropsychiatric illnesses such as the autism to severe depression.
The research was published in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences this week. The [...]

A recent study in US has sought help for women who have been previously treated for breast cancer in one of the breasts in order to make a better decision about the right time to have a preventive mastectomy. This is the procedure to remove the unaffected part of the breast in recognising the kinds [...]

If you ever want to know more about the instrumental key factors that lead to breast cancer such as smoking, other pollutants, obesity then a newly formed database could guide you as evidence that would confirm such an association. Dr. Robert Schneider, Co-Director of the Cancer Research Society in New York University also commented that [...]

It is a known fact that all those people with lighter eyes are comparatively more sensitive to light as they tend to have lesser pigmentation in the iris that would protect them from sunlight. Hence it places them at a higher risk of macular degeneration and some other eye related problems. However, it is yet [...]

The latest study from Sweden has confirmed that all those people who were calm, outgoing as well as unaffected by stress were the least likely to have dementia. However, the risk was also lower for those who remained calm even if they were not active socially. The researchers also added that though these studies are [...]

Scientists have recently found a variant of a gene that augments the risk of heart failure. This gene is commonly found amongst the people of South Asia, where this disease is the primary cause of death. The study was carried out in the presence of 25 scientists from four different countries and was published in [...]