Stomach acid drugs, known as PPIs (proton pump inhibitors), are linked to a higher risk of diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, a type of bacterium. Patients on PPIs who develop persistent diarrhea should be tested for CDAD (Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea), says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).If you are taking PPIs, and have diarrhea that does not go away, you should see..

Using GPS navigation to get to your destination may 'switch off' parts of the brain that would otherwise be used to simulate different routes, a study has found.The study by researchers at University College London(UCL) in the UK involved 24 volunteers navigating a simulation in central London while undergoing brain scans. They investigated activity in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in m..

Women who have taken the oral contraceptive pill are protected from some types of cancer for as long as thirty years, says a new study. The results of the longest-running study in the world for the effects of the contraceptive pill showed that having ever used the pill, women are less likely to have colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer than women who had never used the pill. The..

Is WhatsApp keeping us up way past our bedtime? Answer is yes, say doctors at Bengaluru-based National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (Nimhans). A study has revealed that the use of the internet for Facebook and WhatsApp is making people put off sleep by more than one and a half hours (100 minutes) every day and leading to sleep apnoea to psychological and neurological disturbances...

A recent study published in The BMJ, was the biggest divorce rate investigation amongst physicians has shown that physicians are less likely to divorce that those in other occupations such as law, and also have a lower rate than other healthcare professionals such as nurses. The study also found that female physicians faced a higher likelihood of divorce than male counterparts, significantly due t..