Adjusting meal times can help people beat jet lag on long haul flights, scientists say. Since our brain knows how to keep track of meal-times just as it does of daytime, the time at which one has the meals has a much bigger effect on the body clock than previously thought.

Researchers from Harvard University believe that avoiding food on long haul flights, then eating on arrival, could cut the time it takes to adjust to a new time zone. When our body is not given food, the "feeding clock" of our body overrides the light-based "time clock" keeping the person wake until they find food

A recent study showed celery can help lessen the inflammation of the brain associated with Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

The study, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in its May 27 issue, involved mice made to drink water with luteolin, an antioxidant. The study showed the rodents had reduced inflammation compared with other mice similarly tested with bacteria, Bloomberg reported

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Friday about two organ transplant drugs that can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.

Pregnant women who take the immune-suppressing drugs CellCept or Myfortic can cause birth defects in their unborn babies, the FDA said. Manufactured by Roche and Novartis, the two drugs are approved for use by organ transplant patients to prevent organ transplant rejection

A University of Utah physician and his research team will be honored this weekend for demonstrating how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used during atrial fibrillation (AF) procedures.

Dr. Nassir Marrouche, Dr. Marcos Daccarett and their colleagues will be presented the Eric N. Prystowsky Fellow Clinical Research award at the Heart Rhythm 2008 conference this weekend in San Francisco

Around 5,000 families who believe that a mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, found in many vaccines causes the development of autism have filed claims with the U.S. Court of Claims. The families allege vaccines caused autism and other neurological problems in their children.

Autism is a developmental disability which usually appears in children during their first 36 months. Once an uncommon disorder in the United States, the incidence of autism is now occurring at epidemic rates