HEALTH FROM

Watching too much Internet pornography is making men in their prime losers in the bedroom, a report claims.

Oct 24, 2011

There is no longer any reason to worry about correlation between mobile phones and the development of cancerous cells a new study suggests.

Oct 21, 2011

The European Union's top court ruled that scientists cannot patent stem cell techniques that use human embryos for research, setting back potential treatments for a range of disorders.

Oct 19, 2011

A sailor who spent more than two weeks stranded on a deserted island the size of a football pitch with no food and water has been rescued.

Oct 18, 2011

A taxi driver from Torquay has become the first person for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs

Oct 18, 2011

Ancient Egyptian mummies are no more a thing of the past. In a first-of-its-kind scientific study, British scientists will attempt to mummify the body of a recently deceased Devon taxi driver. The project, intended to test out knowledge of a chemical process used 3,000 years ago by the Egyptians, will be carried out on the body of Alan Billis, 61, from Torquay.

Oct 18, 2011

A Vietnamese woman is in custody for severing her husband’s penis after discovering his long winded affair and having enough of his domestic abuse.

Oct 17, 2011

French billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, is set to lose control of the $22 billion she amassed as L’Oreal heiress due to being placed under family guardianship by a court.

Oct 17, 2011

Sixteen patients at Stepping Hill hospital have been poisoned by saline solution contaminated with insulin, Greater Manchester police have said.

Oct 17, 2011

The cost of facelifts and breast enlargements in Britain may be about to rise by around 20 percent because of a new value-added tax (VAT) on plastic surgery.

Oct 16, 2011

Elderly patients in half of NHS hospitals are not being properly fed or cared for because of a lack of “kindness and compassion”, the health watchdog warns today.

Oct 13, 2011

Researchers at the University of Alberta have made a discovery which could completely change science's understanding of one of the cell's most basic processes.

Oct 12, 2011

Health experts have warned that there is a "very real threat" that gonorrhoea could become incurable.

Oct 11, 2011

A new study from University College London and the University of Warwick suggests that critically ill patients could benefit from drugs or procedures that promote the body's production of nitric oxide.

Oct 11, 2011

Scientists have discovered that people who are very optimistic about the outcome of events could in fact have a "faulty" brain.

Oct 10, 2011

Scientists have discovered a mechanism that causes an aggressive from of lung cancer to re-grow despite being treated with chemotherapy.

Oct 10, 2011

Chiropractors in London are warning people that spending too much time gazing into the screens of your mobile phone or tablet computers could lead to a condition they are calling "Text Neck".

Oct 08, 2011

Monkeys have been trained to control virtual arm and experience virtual touch in a scientific breakthrough which could help paralysed people.

Oct 06, 2011

The number of people of heroin and crack users needing treatment in England has fallen by 10,000 in two years, figures showed today.

Oct 06, 2011

Scientists have used a cloning technique to create embryonic stem cells to grow on a human cell for the first time.

Oct 06, 2011

Simon McClure, 38, has been sentenced to spend two years and six months in prison, for deliberately infecting his ex-lover with the HIV virus.

Oct 06, 2011

Two people were taken to hospital following the "world's hottest chilli" competition at a restaurant in Edinburgh.

Oct 05, 2011

A hospital has admitted to losing the confidential medical details of 800 patients on an unencrypted memory stick, a report reveals.

Oct 05, 2011

The Arthritis Research UK has launched a £6-million experimental tissue engineering centre, aiming to regenerate bone and cartilage by using patient's own stem cells to repair the joint damage caused by osteoarthritis.

Oct 05, 2011

A research conducted at the University of Leeds found that fair-skinned people who burn quickly in the sun may need to take supplements to ensure they get the right amount of vitamin D.

Oct 05, 2011

Many typhoons have battered the Philippines already this year, and another two struck last week. These pictures show the devastation after Typhoon Nalgae hit the Philippines on Saturday.

Oct 04, 2011

Fair-skinned people who burn easily may need to take vitamin D supplements, according to research.

Oct 04, 2011

(Opinion) Why You Deserve to be Disappointed by the iPhone5. So the iPhone5 is coming to a store near you, maybe. Nobody knows for a fact when Apple are to release the mobile phone, although some have told us that the iPhone5 is actually out. It is not. Do not panic people.

Oct 04, 2011

A new 'superbrocoli' developed by British scientists to fight heart disease has gone on sale today in the UK.

Oct 04, 2011