HEALTH

Japan Family Planning Association finds fewer people are having sex amid plummeting birth rates.

Copenhagen researchers analysed data of 342,877 boys.

Xavier Hames has been fitted with an insulin pump that will help manage his type 1 diabetes

Ambulance workers plan to go on two strikes for a 1% bump in pay.

The population of killer virus strain MDR TB grew sharply in the 1820s and then again in the 1990s.

Researchers say pizza should join the ranks of fast food and sugary drinks as nutrition no-no's.

Scientists urged to assess mutations to ensure they are not creating drugs that do not work.

Unhealthy lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking kill 16 million people every year.

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh believes wearable tech will help ease the strain on the health service.

Review study suggests taking breaks from sitting every half an hour to offset health issues.

First successful organ donation from a newborn baby carried out in the UK.

The Deputy Prime Minister has introduced new 'zero suicide' initiatives.

While air pollution will keep Barack Obama mostly indoors during his India visit, the environment ministry refuses to acknowledge vehicular pollution.

No new Ebola cases reported from Mali in last 42 days, Health Minister Ousmane Kone says.

The implant electrically blocks the vagal nerve that connects the brain and stomach.

Applying theorem to data, researchers could determine point at which patients start to recover.

The gene that targets unhealthy ones is also found in humans.

Fully conscious but unable to move, Pistorius heard his mother tell him that she hoped he died.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will come under further scrutiny over the figures.

Osteoporosis risk is limited by an intake of fruits and vegetables rich in potassium.

Sleep paralysis occurs when a person wakes up during REM sleep, causing paralysed muscles and hallucinations.

Cousins fell ill during a contract pitch and is using 3D-printing technology to help doctors cure him.

BrainGate streams thought commands wirelessly using commands collected by a brain implant.

A 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests a lack of exercise is to blame for 676,000 deaths

A spokesperson for the hospital confirmed that a woman is being treated for the virus.

Whoever came up with Dry January should be forced to eat nothing but broccoli for a year.

Free radicals produced when the body processes oxygen can cause serious damage to cells and DNA.

Fitness trackers and smartphone-syncing equipment feature in Virgin Active's new tech-savvy gyms.

Individual EU nations will be able to ban cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops under a compromise deal agreed on Tuesday (January 13) that ends years of deadlock over the barbed issue and could actually boost GM farming.