Low levels of Vitamin D may contribute to chronic pain among women and taking an extra daily dose of the sunshine vitamin may prove beneficial, studies suggest.

The same, however, does not hold true for men as they have different hormones, British researchers say in a study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases

Supermarket chain Shop and Stop is voluntarily recalling "Ready-to-Eat" tuna salad because it might have bacterial contamination.

On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the recall of 4,890 pounds of Home Made and Stop and Shop tuna salad brands as there was a chance for it to be contaminated with Listeria

For some people the first puff of smoke they tried felt repulsive while for others those puffs came with a rush of pleasure. Researchers have identified a gene variant that may help explain why some smokers get addicted from their first cigarette while others seem immune to the addictive properties of tobacco.

The paper published online in the journal Addiction reports an association between a variant in the nicotine receptor gene CHRNA5, initial smoking experiences and current smoking patterns. This gene is far more common among smokers than in those who have the occasional cigarette

Harvard University scientists have made a set of new stem cell lines that make it possible for researchers to explore 10 different genetic disorders including muscular dystrophy and juvenile diabetes. Researchers hope the new research will help them find new treatments for genetic diseases.

The cells were taken from skin and bone marrow of diseased patients and re-programmed to behave like cells from days-old embryos. The subjects, whose ages ranged from one month to 57-years-old, suffered from a range of conditions from Down Syndrome to Parkinson's disease

German researchers have developed a new procedure for kidney transplant patients that replaces anti-rejection drugs with infection-fighting white cells. The procedure boosts immune cells that guard against rejection and eliminates drug side effects.

A team, led by Professor Fred Fandrich from the University of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany, developed a procedure to remove infection-fighting white cells from the blood of a kidney transplant recipient and subject them to a highly complex procedure in which cells are taken from a living or deceased donor