HEALTH

Thunder god vine causes up to 45% decrease in body weight of obese mice.

Five students from Lancaster University taken to hospital after using fake marijuana drug 'spice'.

Inhibiting the enzyme 11β-HSD1 could reverse muscle wasting, diabetes, bone weakness, etc

Not right that students have to fend for themselves, court rules.

The abdominal fat gain was shown to be a result of insulin resistance.

The protein GDF11 was believed to help old mice turn young when transfused with blood from young mice.

Two-year-old hit by crumbling windowsill as she played outside with her grandmother

Optometrist invents tiny bionic lens with camera that enhances images

Omnivores defend eating meat with four N's - natural, necessary, normal and nice

Berkeley scientists turn sugar-fed yeast into morphine factory by synthesising poppy compound.

Britain is normalising obesity and condemning children to a rising tide of avoidable diseases

Tomsk State University researchers have developed a multi-functional laser with a wide variety of uses

Hearing loss among today's teens is about 30% higher than a decade ago.

Abcodia CEO Julie Barnes hopes ovarian cancer screening test will one day be available on NHS.

Experts warn discovery could lead to 'heroin homebrew' kits making drug cheaper to manufacture.

University of California researchers tested Bolivian Tsimane tribe.

Viagra found to increase spleen's ability to filter out the malaria virus from the blood.

Brazil's Health Minister Arthur Chioro on Thursday (14 May) said the country was "technically" facing a dengue fever epidemic.

Scientists develop fingerprint test to detect ingestion of cocaine.

A British government-backed review released on Thursday (14 May) is seeking billions of dollars to fund the development of 15 new antibiotics to counter antibiotic resistance.

Russia's top AIDS expert warns the epidemic can spread to two million Russians in five years.

It's an important 'public right', says Superior Court Judge Donald Black.

Canadian scientists in 'definitive' research

Danish expert blames psychiatric drugs for over half a million deaths in the over 65s.

Hanan Mahmoud Abdul Karim, 36, claims she was left in pain and her stomach was vibrating after the blunder.

Train travelling at twice the limit, seventh body found.

Ancient skeleton of leprosy victim suggests disease spread to Britain from Scandinavia.

Cuba's lung cancer vaccine CimaVax to go to US following trade agreement.

Second baby with rare condition collodion born in Amritsar in last two years.