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By Rajiv Gupta • January 7th, 2009

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Smokers who are trying to gradually kick the butt can effectively to so with the help of nicotine gum, according a new study.
Nicotine gum has been in use for over 20 years to help smokers quit abruptly however, the new study suggests that smokers wanting to quit by gradual reduction can [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): Playing the computer puzzle game “Tetris” can help reduce the symptoms of traumatic stress, claim scientists.
In the study, British researchers found that playing the popular video game shortly after the trauma helped wipe out the bad memories and reduce distressing flashbacks, reports the Telegraph.
Study participants were exposed to distressing images, with [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Pregnant women who smoke risk delivering aggressive kids, according to a new Canada-Netherlands study.
Aggressive offspring were characterized by their mothers as quick to hit, bite, kick, fight and bully others.
The research has been published in the journal Development and Psychopathology.
While previous studies have shown that smoking during gestation causes low birth [...]

Washington, January 7 (ANI): Researchers at Children’’s Hospital Boston claim to have identified the first agents that can help do away with leptin resistance in the brain, and thereby make obese people responsive to this appetite-suppressing hormone.
Dr. Umut Ozcan, of Children’’s Division of Endocrinology, revealed that the research team made this discovery while experimenting with [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Researchers at Baylor University have developed a new way to transform coconut husks into automotive interiors.
They say that it is possible to make trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibers typically used in composite materials.
“Why coconuts? That’’s the [...]

Washington, January 7 (ANI): Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, say that obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain, and eventually harms the brain’s ability to modulate such changes and prevent damage to itself.
Reporting their observations in the Journal of Applied [...]

Melbourne, Jan 7 (ANI): Playful teasing and being called names can be good for building character, a new study says.
The surprising research found that calling names such as “ranga” could be good for young people because it helps them bond and develop social skills.
It may even make “victims” more likely to take on leadership roles [...]

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): It’s the hormone that makes people bond with their mates and helps breastfeeding mothers to fall in love with their babies. Now, scientists have found the first evidence to show that oxytocin plays an important role in helping us to remember the face of a stranger.
According to new research in the [...]

Washington, January 7 (ANI): Carnegie Institution scientists in the United States say that a gene, named scrawny, seems to play a significant role in keeping a variety of stem cells in their undifferentiated state.
Writing about their observations in the journal Science, the researchers said that understanding how stem cells maintain their potency has implications both [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): It has long been associated with negativity, but according to researchers, the colour blue can send self-confidence soaring and boost happiness levels.
To reach the conclusion, researchers from the University of Sussex exposed volunteers to a range of colours and light.
They found that blue and green made male subjects feel happier, while [...]