Ann Arbor: A banana a day may not keep the doctor away, but a substance originally found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could someday fight off a wide range of viruses, new research suggests.

Washington: As you sit and read this at your desk, fluid is slowly leaking out of the porous cartilage in your knee into a membrane-walled cavity between your upper and lower leg bones.

Washington: Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center say they have added to evidence that a shell-shaped region in the center of the mammalian brain, known as the thalamic reticular nucleus or TRN, is likely responsible for the ability to routinely and seamlessly multitask.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched Mission Indradhanush on 25 December last year as a special nationwide initiative to vaccinate all unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children under the Universal Immunization Programme and sustain it by health system strengthening by 2020.

Minneapolis: Having a high stress job may be linked to a higher risk of stroke, according to an analysis of several studies. The meta-analysis is published in the recent online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dallas: A team of scientists at the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) has made a discovery that suggests cancer cells benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells, raising concerns about the use of dietary antioxidants by patients with cancer.