Washington | 12 days ago
Positive emotions best antidote to heart disease
Washington, Feb 18 - Being happy, enthusiastic and contented is the best antidote to heart disease, says a major new study.The study authors believe that it is the first to show such an independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease. Karina Davidson, professor of medicine and psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Centre -, who led the study, said it did sugge ... read more

Washington | 12 days ago
'Karma shapes consumer satisfaction in India'
Washington, Feb 18 - The concept of 'karma' shapes consumer satisfaction in India, suggests a new study. It says it is important for companies to understand cultural differences between markets if they wish to reach consumers in a globalised marketplace.Significantly, it found that 64 percent of Indians believed in karma as against 10.5 percent of the Chinese. Study authors Praveen K. Kopalle and ... read more

Toronto | 14 days ago
How do newborns learn two languages?
Toronto, Feb 17 - It may not be obvious, but hearing two languages regularly during pregnancy puts infants on the road to bilingualism by birth.Infants born to bilingual mothers - exhibit different language preferences than infants born to mothers speaking only one language. Psychologists Krista Byers-Heinlein and Janet F. Werker of the University of British Columbia - along with Tracey Burns, Org ... read more

Washington | 18 days ago
Bill Clinton doing 'very well' after heart procedure
Washington, Feb 13 - Former president Bill Clinton has said he was recovering well after undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery.'Actually I'm doing very well. I feel very blessed,' Clinton told reporters outside his home in Chappaqua, New York, where he had been resting since leaving hospital Friday morning. Clinton, 63, said he began feeling a 'tingling, not pain' in his chest four day ... read more

Washington | 18 days ago
Clinton says he's 'doing very well' after heart procedure
Washington, Feb 13 - Former US president Bill Clinton has said he was recovering well after undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery.'Actually I'm doing very well. I feel very blessed,' Clinton told reporters Friday outside his home in Chappaqua, New York. Clinton, 63, said he began feeling a 'tingling, not pain' in his chest four days earlier and contacted his cardiologist, but he was ne ... read more

New York | 18 days ago
Bill Clinton leaves hospital after heart procedure
New York, Feb 12 - Former US president Bill Clinton left hospital early Friday, a day after undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery.The television channel NBC cited the hospital's head of cardiology Allan Schwartz, who treated Clinton, as saying that that the former president could return to work again on Monday. Clinton, 63, was Thursday admitted to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Hospit ... read more

Washington | 20 days ago
Urbanisation, global trade stripping forest cover
Washington, Feb 10 - The growth of cities and global trade has led to extensive tropical deforestation, according to a new study.Ruth DeFries, professor at the Earth Institute's Centre for Environmental Research and Conservation, and her colleagues analysed remote-sensing images of forest cover across 41 nations in Latin America, Africa and Asia from 2000 to 2005, and combined these with populatio ... read more

New York | 21 days ago
Mediterranean diet likely to lower brain damage risk
New York, Feb 9 - A Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, says a new study.The study found that people who ate a Mediterranean-like diet were less likely to have brain infarcts, or small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking problems. The diet includes high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals, fish ... read more

Washington | 22 days ago
Endeavour heads for space station with new picture window
Washington, Feb 8 - The space shuttle Endeavour lit up the Florida coast before dawn Monday as it blasted off for a mission to the International Space Station -.The 1014 GMT start was the final night-time launch for the ageing shuttle fleet, which is to be mothballed later this year. Endeavour is carrying a six-window viewing area that will give astronauts a panoramic look at Earth, the station an ... read more

Toronto | 22 days ago
Gout ups risk of heart attacks among women
Toronto, Feb 8 - Women with gout are at greater risk of a heart attack than men with the disease, says a new study.Gout is known to boost the risk of a heart attack in men. But to date, little has been known about the impact of gout on women's cardiovascular health. Gout is common and caused by inflammation in the joints as a result of excess uric acid deposits. Uric acid is a by-product of purine ... read more