Two offices of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been established in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. The FDA said on Thursday that these offices are part of a new initiative to ensure safety and quality of drugs and food products exported from India to the United States.

Recent study revealed that pre-natal exposure to alcohol of a child leads to attraction to its smell during teenage life. Research team led by Professor Steven Youngentob from the State University of New York conducted animal studies to investigate foetal ethanol exposure and its effects in later life.

Officials confirmed first outbreak of bird flu in poultry in the eastern part of Nepal. They added that bird flu was reported in poultry from the crowded southeast Nepal town of Kakarvitta, bordering India.

The retina is considered as an extension of the central nervous system. Earlier, researches have used it as a "window into the brain".

Research team led by Nick Beare of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital studied the retina in the eye of patients with cerebral malaria to understand how an acute form of malaria attacks the brain.

Recent research has revealed that excessive intake of coffee can increase tendency to hallucinate. The researchers from the University of Durham found that people who drink more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one.

Person suffering from "werewolf syndrome," has hair all over his body and face. This is a very rare genetic condition known as hypertrichosis. Till now there has been no proper cure for it.

Recent study by a charity claim that people diagnosed with major lung diseases should be checked again as they may be victim of wrong diagnosis. This study also showed that due to wrong diagnosis many patients could be at risk of lung damage because they have been diagnosed with the wrong illness.

A study has suggested that a man's facial scars could increase his sex appeal for women but women reported that despite that they would not have a long term relationship with these men. The research conducted by a team from the universities of Liverpool and Stirling was based on an extensive study of 220 people in Britain.

A study has shown that middle aged men, who took a daily dose of aspirin or other "non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug" (NSAID), have better test results for prostrate cancer. PSA, or prostate specific antigen, is a blood marker used to monitor the progress of prostate cancer and taking the pill significantly reduced the PSA levels which suggested that the body was fighting the disease.

Two studies have found that women who smoke are twice as likely to develop premenstrual syndrome over the next two to four years and those with a particular gene mutation linked to breast cancer may further increase their risk. In the first study, Dr. Elizabeth R.