Life Desk :Researchers at the Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta VA Medical Center have found that moderate aerobic exercise...
Life Desk : Social contact and regular exercise are key to healthy and happy aging and living a longer life, according to newly presented research.In fact, feeling extremely lonely can increase an older person’s chances of premature death by 14 percent, an impact nearly as strong as that of a disadvantaged socioeconomic status, according to John Cacioppo, psychology professor at the University of Chicago.He noted that a meta-analysis of several studies published in 2010 showed that social isolation had twice...
Life Desk : A promising new approach has been put forward by a team of researchers which may help treat leukemia by disarming a gene responsible for tumor progression. That gene, known as Brg1 is a key regulator of leukemia stem cells that are the root cause of the disease, resistance to treatment and relapse.Julie Lessard, principal investigator and her colleagues at IRIC have spent the past four years studying that gene in collaboration with another research group at Stanford...
Life Desk :Premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible, a new research suggests.Researchers hypothesised...
Life Desk :There is actually no benefit in replacing fructose, which is commonly blamed for obesity, by glucose, a new...
Life Desk :A new animal study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has found that anxiety could be reduced by...
Life Desk :If your first marriage did not work out, you don’t have to worry, because there are few reasons...
Life Desk :A computer-based virtual world could prove to be an effective learning environment.Researchers have demonstrated the potential of using...
Life Desk :Forgot the grocery items your wife asked you to pick up on the way back home from work?...
Life Desk :An age discrimination settlement worth 80,000 dollars has been won by a Florida headmaster which was to be...
Life Desk :An expert has opined that West Bengal should focus on tackling infants’ death within the first month of...
Life Desk : The influence of background music on the perception of food has now been found; make sure you select your lady’s favourite songs with her choice of cuisine to woo her right.According to a new study on the effects of different background music on the taste of foods, genres of music can elicit different emotions and the enjoyment of some foods can be affected by emotions.“Little has been known about the influence of background music genre on food...