According to the scientists from Bristol University in Great Britain, exposure to "friendly" bacteria found soil may help improve mood and fight depression.

The researchers discovered that mice exposed to Mycobacterium vaccae produced more serotonin - the brain chemical. A shortage of serotonin is connected with depression. Therefore, widely used antidepressant medications act by increasing serotonin levels, BBC News informed.

It may not constitute one of biggest dilemmas of life, however it’s obviously one of the most frequent.

Whether to bite the bullet and sling wilting produce and 2-day old fish in the trash, or hope for the best and throw it in the pan?

An implantable device stimulating the body’s own regulatory systems of controlling high blood pressure belongs to numerous experimental technologies that are promising for the treatment of various kinds of cardiovascular problems.

Others comprise a computer improving the effects of angioplasty by automating balloon inflation and an X-ray-visible microcapsule simplifying the delivery and tracking of stem cells to tissues that require new blood vessels.

Currently, a significant clinical trial that is due to find out whether the nutritional supplement creatine is able to decelerate the progression of Parkinson’s disease is being introduced by the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

According to the latest research, women experiencing early stage breast cancer demonstrate much higher survival rates when they are treated both with chemotherapy and tamoxifen rather than with tamoxifen alone.

According to the findings of three different studies conducted by British scientists, the result of minimally invasive heart bypass surgery is longer and better quality of life than the use of artery-opening stents for people having a single blocked coronary artery.

According to the latest study, injury to a part of the brain believed to produce emotional behavior may alter a person’s moral judgment.

The New York Times announced that the study was published in the March 22 issue of the journal Nature. The research discovered that damage to this section of the brain, known as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, could in fact alter a person’s eagerness to hurt or even kill another individual.

According to the information released on Thursday by the country’s health ministry, there is a great likelihood that bird flu has claimed the lives of another two people in Indonesia. The two victims died after each of them had positive results of the tests for bird flu in a first test. Follow-up tests are being performed in order to confirm these results.

Research on animal indicating that anaesthesia may be dangerous to developing brains have aroused worries connected with potential risks for young kids who undergo surgery.

However, at a meeting that was held Thursday in order to discuss this issue, US Food and Drug Administration investigators said that they have no evidence confirming that anaesthesia and sedation medications can lead to brain damage in children, the Associated Press informed.

According to the latest study carried out by British scientists, and published on Saturday in The Lancet medical journal, both alcohol and tobacco are more hazardous than some illicit drugs, such as marijuana or Ecstasy. Therefore, they should be reclassified to reflect the danger they pose to society.

By the use of three factors to identify the damage they cause, Professor David Nutt of Bristol University and his team came to conclusion that alcohol and tobacco belonged to the top ten most hazardous substances, the Associated Press informed.