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Psychologist Susan Pinker argues that the strongest predictor of living to 100 is not diet or exercise, but human connection. Drawing on re...

Despite many countries offering free treatment, tuberculosis patients still face significant costs. Hospitalisation and income loss are maj...

Researchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology discovered various mutations not included in existing databases and even a n...

New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Lucy -- the common name accorded to the world-famous fossilised remains of an early human ancestor who lived 3.18 mi...

Poor sanitation can cause ill health is well-known but the new study finds open defecation leads to children with low birth weights and an ...

Researchers found that while children get flu on average every other year, flu infections become less frequent as people progress through c...

For all those who participate in clinical trials, it may come as a shock that the data about their trials may never be published.