HEALTH

Lethal cocktail was created to thwart skyrocketing price of $5,000 Valent pharma dose.

The Liberian health ministry has insisted it is prepared to contain any new flare-up

World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April is aimed at raising awareness about the condition.

Women who take antidepressants while pregnant may worry about the potential risks to their babies.

Families speak out on World Autism Awareness Day about the challenges they face on a daily basis.

World Autism Awareness Day is marked on 2 April to raise awareness of spectrum disorder.

Study predicts one third of adults in UK will be obese by 2025 with zero chance of meeting UN's obesity goals.

The first, fully functional, artificial skin has been made to be implanted on living organisms.

The UK is predicted to become the fattest nation in Europe by 2025, with almost 40% of adults obese.

Images from nature where holes are present appear to make people feel uncomfortable.

Mindfulness training helps veterans with PTSD by altering brain activity and symptoms of the disorder.

The way people judge email-writers for their errors depends on their personality traits, scientists suggest.

Criticism and an 'anti-colonialist' resentment is shutting out babies for foreigners.

The protocol change will make medication abortions more easily available in at least three states.

DEA terms first wave in Northern California of illegal sales a 'serious health threat.'

Scientists use laser speckle intensity detection and a camera to identify micro-organisms living in food.

The identification of the disease, affecting families in Europe, offers up the possibility of finding a cure.

Scientists find people's minds drift when they don't need to focus on what they are doing.

An estimated 20,000 people with conditions such as schizophrenia are shackled and kept in filthy conditions,

Vegetarian diet has led to genetic mutation that may increase risk of inflammatory conditions, scientists say.

NHS England, which levies the fines, said instead of penalties, NHS trusts will be incentivised from 2017.

Policy aims is to stem historic number of addictions and overdose deaths in America.

Memory formation is a complex process that could be driven by what we expect to happen in any given situation.

Whether English, Spanish, Chinese or those who speak in sign, people express disagreement in the same way.

In the modern world of dating, subtle actions, like posture changes, can make a big difference.

The results so far show that it could reduce inequality if it improves health behaviours among the poor.

Scientific studies showing the benefits of eating chocolate

Cassidy Megan, a 9-year-old Canadian, has been instrumental in the establishment of Purple Day.

Cardiac patients are getting younger and fatter, prompting worries that prevention is not working.