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Don’t be surprised if you see a robotic cockroach doing some rescue works around a collapsed building because such a roach bot is going to be the future hero for trapped people. The unique invention is brainchild of UC Berkeley researchers.

The new cockroach robot is capable of running through tiny spaces in collapsed buildings, and that too at blazing speeds, as per the researchers. The roach bot has been designed with an aim to use it as search-and-rescue robobugs in buildings collapsed in disasters. The tiny robot can also help scientists understand the role of animals in soft robotics.

According to a new study, the effectiveness of vaccination given for whopping cough starts to diminish with every passing year. This implies that the vaccine, which is given for safeguarding whooping cough, is not proving to be as successful as it should be. The lack in the ability to prevent from the disease with every subsequent year is leaving the teenagers susceptible to catching the infection.

US President Barack Obama at his final State of the Union address in January to a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, said that they were treading on the planned path to wipe out new HIV/AIDS transmissions from the country by 2020.

The federal government and various states have prepared a strategy to counter the epidemic through recent medical advances that have been decreasing the incidence of the deadly infection and making better the quality of life in some US demographic groups.

But the information needs to be better spread among various stakeholders, including volunteers active in the field, religious leaders and others who can help check the scourge of HIV/AIDS at the grassroots level in African-American communities.

Another victim of mold outbreak at UPMC Presbyterian has died at hospital, announced the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. With the latest demise, the death count linked to a fungal infection during the outbreak has reached four.

On Sunday, the University confirmed the death of 4th infected patient. The person, 70-year-old Che DuVall, was diagnosed with the infection about four weeks after undergoing a double lung transplant in last year’s August, as per the university’s statement.

If your body mass index (BMI) is normal, it doesn’t mean you are healthy. A new study has suggested that BMI calculations are crude, and not accurate health assessment, and people who have been labeled obese or overweight could be healthy.

The study by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) stated that BMI is an inaccurate method of determining if a person is healthy or not. More than 54 million people in the America who have higher BMIs were previously mislabeled as overweight, or unhealthy, as per the study published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Amid fears of Zika virus, Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro is getting ready to host Olympic Games in August this year. But the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has jolted the host by suggesting US athletes not to visit the country affected with the mosquito-borne flavivirus.

Officials at the USOC, sports federation of the US based in Colorado Springs, told US sports federations in a conference that the nation’s sportspersons and other staff members who concerned for their health over the deadly Zika virus can avoid the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.