HEALTH & BEAUTY

Jammu: Vehicular movement on the Jammu-Srinagar highway was affected on Saturday due to fresh snowfall, although the 300 km-long road is open for one-way traffic. “Five to six inches of snow in Bannihal sector has slowed down the vehicular movement in the morning, but the highway is open for one-way traffic ...

New Delhi:Delhi and the National Capital Region on Saturday witnessed light rains scattered across the area with the Met predicting more thundershowers and hailstorm later. The drizzle though did not impact the mercury. The minimum temperature here was recorded at 13 degrees Celsius, the season’s average. “Thunderstorm with hail is ...

Los Angeles: Amazon has apparently started removing anti-vaccine documentaries from its Prime Video streaming service after a CNN Business report highlighted the anti-vaccine comment available on the site. Anti-vaccine movies that were previously available free for Prime subscribers, like “We Don’t Vaccinate!”, “Shoot ‘Em Up: The Truth About Vaccines”, and “VAXXED: ...

City life has caused a decrease in the sperm count in young Italian men, says a new study by the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexuality Medicine (SIAMS). By pooling the results of three studies, the Rome-based organisation concluded that more than 33 percent of men aged between 18 and ...

Post-menopausal women should think twice before going in for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) because it is tied to breast cancer globally, reveals a study. The study by McMaster University researchers, that found consistent evidence that use of HRT is linked to breast cancer globally, comes at a time when more ...

An American scientist has unravelled how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) appropriates the body’s own defences to promote AIDS, a discovery that could help curb its spread. Nevin Krogan, associate professor of cellular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), described how HIV commandeers restriction factors, a class ...

The first human trials for the new HIV injectible vaccine are under way, containing a specific protein which will target the most virulent strain of the virus. Researchers from the Imperial College London, the Hull York Medical School, the Medical Research Council clinical trial unit and the Infectious Disease Research ...

The HIV drug Viread will now be available in powder form for HIV positive children after its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a bio-pharmaceutical company said Sunday. The move is expected to benefit millions of HIV positive children. “There remains an unmet need for heat-stable, taste-neutral ...