Color coding — matching taste with color
Our experiences and expectations are known to influence our responses. Now researchers at Penn State University in the US say that color can impact...
Calories burned daily depends on time of day
Researchers at Harvard Medical School in the US have made the surprising discovery that the number of calories that people burn while at rest...
App helps save lives in heart attack
A new smartphone app recently developed by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, headquartered in Utah, United States, could help in identifying...
New Flu vaccine approved
A new anti-flu drug Xofluza that was announced earlier this year in Japan has been approved for prescription by the Food and Drug Administration...
Lab-grown retinas explain color vision
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the United States have grown human eye retinas from scratch in the laboratory to determine how cells allow...
Social-media increases depression, loneliness
The link between social-media and depression has been the topic of studies for years but a causal connection had never been proven. Now researchers...
New study widens understanding of diabetes
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than 420 million people around the world suffer from diabetes and its dire consequences such as...
Season for outbreak of infectious disease
As the saying, ‘there is a season for everything’ implies, it now appears that infectious diseases too have a season of their own. Most...
CAN affirms success of raising awareness of cancer detection
Head of Cancer Awareness National Campaign (CAN), Dr. Abdulrahman AlAwadhi, affirmed the success of a campaign to raise awareness of the community of all...
Health official: Kuwait leader in kidney transplant operations
Kuwait is a leader in kidney transplantations in the Gulf and the Arab world with 80 to 100 operations taking place annually, Assistant Undersecretary...
