Healthcare

Are you hopelessly addicted to marijuana? Perhaps exercise can help.

Cadmium, the soft, inexpensive metal often used in making trinkets, is a potent toxin and needs to be prohibited in jewellery, particularly embellishments made for children, suggests a new research conducted by Canadian and US product safety authorities.

The federal health authorities have warned that taking an epilepsy drug during pregnancy increases the chances of such babies having oral defects including cleft palate deformities and cleft lips. The drug is also used to prevent migraines.

Developing diabetes in middle age can cut short your life by an average of six years, say researchers. It is not just diabetes that kills them.

Though countless studies have established that an adult needs to get at least seven hours of sleep for optimal functioning of mind, body and spirit, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds a third of Americans regularly sleep only five hours or less each night.

According to a new study, regular use of ibuprofen, a pain and inflammation reducing drug, shows promise in arresting the development of Parkinson’s disease, an incurable degenerative brain disorder.

Genuine concerns about controlling cannabis-related products have prompted the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to use its emergency powers in enforcing a law to get fake pot off the legal market.

A new study has suggested that kids’ happiness lies in living and eating with family. On the other hand, having parents split up is worse for a child's happiness than not having money, suggests the study.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a young woman with measles who traveled through three airports in the United States may have passed the highly transmittable virus on to other travelers, flight crews and airport workers.

Do you need a new blood vessel? Well, just pick that one off the shelf. This might sound bizarre, but scientists have now been able to engineer artificial blood vessels which can be available ‘off-the-shelf’. You may no longer need to sacrifice blood vessels from any other part of your body.