London, Mar 15 : Popular bath products for kids contain cancer-causing chemicals, says a new study.

According to a research carried out in the United States, many of the top-selling brands contain formaldehyde, which is used to embalm corpses.

Out of the 28 products tested for formaldehyde in an independent laboratory, 23 contained it, reports Sky News.

Washington, March 15 : Companies can improve their bottom lines if they invest in health programs for employees, with an eye on reducing medical claim costs, according to a study.

"It''s a win-win opportunity - employers and employees can benefit from a healthier workforce," said LuAnn Heinen, vice president of the National Business Group on Health and the lead author of the study paper.

Describing their study in The Milbank Quaterly, Heinen and co-author Helen Darling revealed that they analysed four employer-sponsored wellness programs targeting a combined 75,000 employees.

Washington, March 15 : An Indian-origin researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has found that imbalance of iron homeostasis is a common feature of prion disease-affected human, mouse, and hamster brains.

Dr. Neena Singh, who worked in collaboration with researchers from Creighton University, says that her team's findings provide new insight into the mechanism of neurotoxicity in prion disorders, and novel avenues for the development of therapeutic strategies.

Unlike other neurodegenerative conditions, prion disorders are sporadic, inherited, and infectious, and affect both humans and animals.

Mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans are some of its examples.

London, Mar 15: Viagra might help men rise to the occasion, but its side effects can be oddly devastating, which include - wonky willies flatulence, toothache and hiccups!

According to a health watchdog, the drug is responsible for 109 deaths in the UK.

In Britain, more than 1,000 reports of problems are logged in a huge database listing more than 1,500 side effects.

The drug is prescribed more than one million times a year.

Washington, Mar 14 : Researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a molecular pathway that can be a potential therapeutic target for Down's syndrome, the most frequent cause of mental retardation.

The study showed that synaptojanin-1, a central component of the pathway, is essential to production of glia, brain cells that act as neurons'' personal assistants.

Down''s syndrome, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer''s disease, and stroke all are linked by an overproduction of glia.

Washington, Mar 14: While alcohol consumption has always been attributed to devastating effects on health, a new study has revealed that moderate consumption might make bones stronger in older adults.

An international team of experts headed by Katherine Tucker studied a cohort of older adults in the Framingham Offspring Study to determine an association between alcohol consumption and bone mineral density.

“Moderate alcohol consumption was shown to contribute to stronger bones (measured as hip and spine bone mineral density),” said ASN Spokesperson Stephanie Atkinson, PhD.