One in ten are allergic to cats suffering from itching, sneezing and watering eyes, which may soon be a thing of the past as researchers are developing a vaccine for providing long-term protection against these symptoms.

Early trials have found the product to be safe, effective and longer lasting than current treatments that also have serious side-effects.

If, further trials of the vaccine prove successful, the scientists hope they will be able to develop similar products for millions suffering from hay fever and other allergies. However, experts warn this may prove more difficult.

French pharmaceutical Goliath Sanofi-Aventis SA on Friday expressed that the two patients dealt with its Multaq atrial fibrillation drug have experienced liver breakdown and need transplants, although no fundamental connection has been set up amid consuming the drug and the ailment.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by changing his attitude. It’s the key factor behavior that shapes the destiny and decides the life. It’s only our behavior which builds our social image. Behavior denotes the entirety of someone’s characteristics.

Thus some one’s behavior, whatever kind it would be, in the future, if can be predicted from its present type can very well be trained to polish so as to have a glorious society full of well behaved thus successful citizens.

On Friday for setting the dialogue on the India-US Health Initiative into motion, the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad met US Secretary (Minister) for Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.

The meeting reflected that the two nations have partnership with health as the core issue.

Azad during the meeting stated that an oversight mechanism meant to review all collaborative partnerships between USA and India was needed seeing the present scenario.

Rising summer temperatures a beach season in full swing has consumers stocking up on sunscreen, which is no easy matter.

There is a vast variety of three digit sun protection factors i.e. SPF sprays and lotions on store shelves. While, some offer protection against sunburn, they do not prevent skin damage in the long term. There are those sunscreen products, recent research has found to be less effective than their manufacturers’ claims, rather they have been found to be potentially dangerous.

It has been reported that there has been a huge drop in the US retail sales in the month of May. It was followed by a big jump in the month of June. The retail sales were down by 1.2% as compared to April. This was the first ever drop in last eight months but the economists have expected to have a hike of 0.4% in coming days.

A consumer confidence index has raise to 75.5 in June against an expected figure of 74.5.

In the debut weekend of the Karate Kid, casting Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith has elevated its way to the top of the North American box office. Kicking, Shrek Forever After into third spot, the reboot of the 1984 original took $56m
(£38m).

Taking the second position was an action film, the A-Team, which was based on the 1980s TV show and it captured over $26m (£17.7m). With receipts of $10m (£6.8m) and $8.2m (£5.58m), the Comedy Get Him To The Greek and Killers respectively, completed the top five positions.

Pregnant women in the United States may very soon have a new variety of contraceptive that will stop unnecessary pregnancy after insecure sex, according to UPI. This “innovative” morning after tablet, named Ella, is produced by HRA Pharma of Paris. The company expects to obtain Food and Drug organization authorization soon.

The contraceptive pill (Plan-B) is analogous to RU-486 because both of them are able to abort the pregnancy after defenseless intercourse.

Noting a link between depression and belly fat, U.S. researchers have suggested that addressing abdominal fat in treating depression.

At the beginning the 15-year study those reporting high levels of depression gained weight at a faster rate than those reporting low depression, said study leader Barbara Needham of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

U.S. researchers have said that people with decreased low-density lipoprotein, the "bad," cholesterol can count on an increased life expectancy.

It has been reported that principal investigator Dr. Henry Buchwald, a bariatric surgeon at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and colleagues evaluated 838 heart attack survivors between the ages of 38-60.

417 patients out of the 838 study participants were instructed to go on a diet and 421 were instructed to diet but were also given a partial ileal bypass surgery, to bypass the small intestine where cholesterol is absorbed.

According to the U.S. researchers, birds do it, fish do it and humans do it too, mate choice copying, in which one copies the mate selections of others.

U.S. researchers have found that employees who start work between 8 p.m. and midnight had consistently poorer performance at work, probably due to a lack of sleep.

The study found workers' sleep lasted from 4.5 hours to 8 hours, depending on when the shift began, said lead author Angela Bowen, research assistant at the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane.

It was predicted by the study that the minimum on-the-job fatigue occurred when the shift started at 9 a.m., while maximum fatigue occurred when the work shift began at 11 p.m.

The Government records have uncovered that federal inspectors failed to initiate nearly a 33% of the necessary inspections on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the 28 months, before it exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

MMS reports, including one released three weeks prior to the catastrophic April 20 explosion, suggest that the rig's blowout preventer was alright and was properly functioning. However, they were silent of any persistent issues with rise of natural gas, or "kicks", flowing up via the well and hampering the drilling process.

Next week, there will be a voting session by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) on whether the female libido enhancing drug Flibanserin, should be approved or not. If the drug will be approved then it will make a business of million dollars in US markets alone.

The FDA will vote on female Viagra, which in future could prove to be a boon to many females suffering from low sex drives across the globe, but it is still in a controversy that it is also associated with side effects.