WASHINGTON - A French study has found that men who start to lose hair at the age of 20 are more likely to develop prostate cancer in later life. he research compared 388 men being treated for prostate cancer with a control group of 281 healthy men and found that those with the disease were twice as likely as the healthy men to have started going bald when they were 20.

WASHINGTON - A team of scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, believes that zinc supplements can reduce the severity and duration of illness caused by the common cold.