HEALTH

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.

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

An English plastic surgeon has spent the past three months studying the vital statistics of over 100 glamour models and has finally found what he calls the ‘perfect equation for vital statistics.’

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.

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.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Stirling indicates that use of contraceptive pills could influence a woman's choice of partners.

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.

A study has found that life span of people with HIV in UK has increased by 15 years over a decade.

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

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.

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

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

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".

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

(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.

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

Researchers at the Institute of Food Research and the John Innes Center have developed a new broccoli, known as Beneforté, with capabilities to fight cancer. It is now available in the UK market.

Ralph M. Steinman, 68, a professor at New York's Rockefeller University, died of pancreatic cancer on Spet. 30. What is particularly heartbreaking is that he never knew he had been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine! Steinman was acknowledged by the Nobel Foundation for his research into the human immune system.

Scientist Dies of Cancer Days Before Receiving Nobel Prize. A Canadian born scientist who was yesterday awarded the Nobel prize for medicine died of pancreatic cancer just days before he would have found out that he had been awarded the prize.

It has emerged that Ralph Steinman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday morning, died of pancreatic cancer last week.