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According to a new study, patients treated with antidepressants had lower mortality rates, artery disease and stroke than those who did not receive any medication for depression.

For the study, researchers included more than 5000 people who had severe depression out of more than 26,000 patients who received treatment at the involved medical facility. According to the researchers, it was found that 20% had moderate or severe depression and the left one 21,517 patients didn't show depression based on a 9-question depression screen.

A study has found that men and women go through similar changes in their alcohol intake habits over their lifetime. The study conducted on people in the United Kingdom reported a sharp increase in men and women’s drinking habits during adolescence and the intake peaked in early adulthood. In the midlife, it reaches at a particular level and then stays the same, while in older age, alcohol intake declines, the study reported.

Researchers of the study found that youngsters drank the largest quantities of alcohol. Annie Britton, a senior lecturer of epidemiology at University College London and lead researcher of the study, said, “It was older men who drank the most often with lots of men drinking on a daily basis in later life”.

A new study has revealed that love hormone oxytoxin can help you maintain weight by reducing caloric intake. “We studied the effect of a single dose of oxytocin on food intake and metabolism on healthy men. And basically what we found is that after receiving oxytocin men ate less at a breakfast meal, they burned more fat, and they handled their blood sugar better”, said lead researcher Elizabeth Lawson, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

With the introduction of thermal imaging, the old pattern of counting the whales migrating past the California coast by watching them through binoculars would not be followed by scientists anymore.

The imaging helps count whales and there is no need for scientists to be there. It’s an annual tradition being followed to count gray whales. They travel from their summer feeding ground in the Arctic to their winter locations off the coast of the Baja in Mexico.

With the new technique, the cameras will grab the pictures whenever the whales come to the surface and breathe through their blow holes. When whales comes to the surface to breathe then they release air, which is much warmer than the surrounding air and the camera is able to click the image.

On Sunday, the US, Canada and parts of Mexico is going to begin Daylight Saving Time again. Many Caribbean Islands are also going to set their clocks forward. On March 29, many European countries will set their clocks forward as well.

The Daylight Saving Time will not start in Hawaii, Arizona, and parts of Alaska in the US. In Canada, the scheme will not be active in Saskatchewan and in other areas in territories and parts of Mexico.

It is expected that the coordinated time changes will cost the airline industry $147 million a year in travel disruptions alone. Americans on Central and Rocky Mountain time is going to spring forward for the last time as planned. It has been informed that Americans on Pacific Time must set their clocks forward two hours in place of one.

On Friday US President Barack Obama called for criminal justice reform as part of the modern struggle for civil rights. At South Carolina's Benedict College, Obama said that racial discrimination from police in Ferguson, Missouri, was oppressive and abusive.

Obama's comments came on the eve of the 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', when police beat many of people who were marching from Selma to Montgomery in order to protest their lack of voting rights.

In his most expansive comments about the Justice Department's report on bias against blacks in Ferguson, Obama remarked that is quiet surprising to know that the investigators merely had to look at email sent by police officials to find evidence.