A welcome piece of positive news for Africa comes from the Sri Lanka-headquartered International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and a new satellite data initiative.

Water-related natural disasters are major impediments to human security and sustainable socioeconomic development. Climate change has made extreme weather events more severe by altering their frequency, timing, intensity and duration.

Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red across northwestern India and Pakistan depicts crops that have ripened in the last couple of weeks.

A game stimulates a mind – at any age - to explore and wonder. A board game, often based on a near-life setting, offers a safe informal environment where players can interact and learn from each other.

Statins, the most commonly used cholesterol-lowering agents, were found to be significantly underutilized to treat lipid abnormalities in patients who

A completely different type of cholesterol is more likely to cause cardiovascular disease than previously believed. This is the remnant particle cholesterol

Since the implementation of the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol, cholesterol levels in American adults are declining.

In people under 45 years, a strong association between non-HDL cholesterol levels and long-term risk for cardiovascular disease has been suggested. The

New year 2020 is almost here to start with a bang. Picking out the right food, gadgets, exercises, and outdoor activities well in advance can help you

Christmas is the synonym for cheer, festivities, gifts, food, family, friends, and a whole lot of fun. We tend to indulge in our favorite food over the festive season.

Wise words for living a life of real meaning and joy this New Year 2020 have been revealed by CSU faculty experts in psychology, gerontology and palliative care.

Eros, Philia, Storge, and Agape are the four different kinds of love, some are healthy and some are not, said an expert. Eros: erotic, passionate

Researchers have said that facial expressions might not be reliable indicators of emotion. People should never trust a person's face, added researchers.

Researchers have said that people of different generations are equally lonely, but for different reasons. London, March 12 People of different generations

New substances discovered could ease the severe side effects of the medication or the drugs taken by patients for treating severe depression, reports a new study.

Implementation of existing interventions targeting modifiable risk factors can help narrow the mortality gap between the general and the severe mental illness populations, reports a new study.

High doses of magnetic brain stimulation, delivered on an accelerated timeline, and targeted to individual neurocircuitry, effectively treated 90 percent

In people with depression, natural mood regulation is low or even absent, revealed research published today in JAMA Psychiatry, from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.

A study across 15 cities in South Asia, Africa and South America shows that water is inaccessible and unaffordable.

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan asserted that doubling rate of COVID-19 cases has increased from three days before imposition of lockdown in March to 9.

There is no spike in fever and pneumonia cases, no flooding of ICUs with patients. Data-sets indicate there is nothing to suggest a large-scale spread of viral infection in the country.

India, Indonesia and Thailand must play a lead role in overcoming the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

In the fresh lockdown 3.0 guidelines, cycle rickshaws, autos, taxi, cabs, barber shops and intra-district plying of vehicles and buses are restricted in Red Zones.

New study published online today by Nature Communications revealed which patients with ovarian cancer won't benefit from immune-PARP combo. The study

Liver cancer is rising around the world, despite preventive measures, according to the study published online in iCANCER/i, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS).

New drug, called FL118, was found to be more effective against advanced multiple myeloma cancer cells than the newly diagnosed cases, reports a new study.

New study offers evidence that doing regular exercise can help prevent the most common type of liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma. The study also identified

Re-growth of tumors can be stopped by a new drug under investigation, named Quisinostat, according to the study by the team of researchers at the Francis

In pediatric patients undergoing chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the cardioprotective drug dexrazoxane preserved cardiac function without

Plants create networks of air channels, the lungs of the leaf to transport carbon dioxide to their cells, said experts led by the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have successfully turned back the biological hands of time, coaxing adult human cells in the laboratory to

Nonstop media coverage on the coronavirus may provide vital information and, to some degree, reassure the public. But such round-the-clock coverage can

New oral formulation of Amphotericin B is identified to treat systemic fungal and parasitic infections by the researchers at the Wasan Laboratory in the

Researchers are developing virus testing devices that could be used without the benefit of medical facilities, which would be particularly useful in rural or remote regions.

“One of the big challenges of dealing with water resource management is: How are you going to manage something if you can't measure it?” said William Rex, senior adviser at the International Water Management Institute.

A welcome piece of positive news for Africa comes from the Sri Lanka-headquartered International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and a new satellite data initiative.

Water-related natural disasters are major impediments to human security and sustainable socioeconomic development. Climate change has made extreme weather events more severe by altering their frequency, timing, intensity and duration.

A network of solar irrigation pumps equipped with sensors that connect to the Internet will potentially provide a world first database of groundwater usage in sub-Saharan Africa.

Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red across northwestern India and Pakistan depicts crops that have ripened in the last couple of weeks.

A game stimulates a mind – at any age - to explore and wonder. A board game, often based on a near-life setting, offers a safe informal environment where players can interact and learn from each other.

Genetic-based epilepsy risk scores could lay the foundation for a more individualized method of epilepsy diagnosis and treatment. This test was developed

Mouse blastocyst-like structures, or "blastoids," from a single cultured cell, circumventing the need for natural embryos have been created by researchers

Pluripotent stem cells research provides insight into how Huntington's Disease (HD) develops and may help pave the way for identifying pathways for future treatments.

A gene that is associated with severe genetic kidney disease has been identified successfully. This groundbreaking discovery could open up new avenues for more precise treatments.

Gene therapy to treat aldehyde dehydrogenase type 2 (ALDH2) deficiency helps prevent increased risk for esophageal cancer and osteoporosis linked to chronic alcohol exposure, revealed study.

Specific nutrients were found to directly influence the stem cell development, revealed Biomedical scientists from KU Leuven and Harvard University published these results in Nature.

Gene therapy could prevent or reverse cardiac dysfunction in Barth syndrome according to the new research at Boston Children's Hospital. The findings,

Scientists have reported substantial variability from state to state and region to region in the number of donor organs recovered from drug-intoxication-related deaths.

Mesenchymal stromal cells from liver were found to have immunoregulatory qualities that make them more effective than similar cells derived from adipose,