Air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, a study says.
Researchers studied 66,000 women in and around 36 US cities, finding pollution levels varied between four to nearly 20 micrograms per cubic metre.
The University of Washington team said each 10 microgram rise was matched by a 76% rise in [...]

Clinical trials of a new drug designed to help prevent women contracting the Aids virus have been stopped.
The World Health Organization said the drug, which uses a microbicidal gel, did not help the women and made them more vulnerable.
The tests were carried out on more than 1,300 women in South Africa, Benin, Uganda and India.
The [...]

A woman in Brazil has given birth to a “giant baby” weighing 17lb (8kg) – twice the size of an average newborn.
Ademilton dos Santos is the heaviest boy ever born in Brazil, says the Brazilian Gynaecological Association.
Ademilton was born by Caesarean section on Wednesday at a hospital in Salvador in north-eastern Brazil.
He is Francisca Ramos [...]

London: Doctors hoping to predict disease outbreaks may want to tune into more weather forecasts.
Weather patterns can often be a key factor in finding out when an epidemic is imminent because they determine the conditions for germs and their carriers to breed.
The techniques can help quicken the response to viral outbreaks worldwide and health disasters [...]

New Delhi: Winter is a special season but a demanding one too. It demands that you do more than the bare minimum for your skin and hair. The air is not humid but it is dry and chilly. And hair craves moisture.
But how do we manage to care for our hair in the middle of a [...]