HEALTH

An EU project aims at creating artificial agents to help people with autism or schizophrenia interact with others.

The Japanese diet, as described in governmental guidelines, reduces mortality in the long term.

Generosity and altruism are boosted when activity in people's prefrontal cortex decreases.

The open source tool may also be used for Android devices in future.

Health officials say 43-year-old man contracted birth-defect causing virus during trip to Brazil in February.

Research disputes studies that say a couple of units per week reduces heart disease and other illnesses.

Dubai launches public service health campaign to ban pregnant women from shisha cafes.

Anxiety is frequent in young people and could be due to genetic and molecular reasons.

Research shows genetic factors associated with autism are found in people unaffected by the disorder.

Sperm cells naturally have a low mobility. Scientists pinpoint how they are activated to move towards the egg.

A patch created for treating diabetes, which tracks glucose in sweat, has been successful in mice trials.

Parents are immunizing their children against Meningitis B despite the vaccine costing them around £400.

Island is at poverty, weather ground zero of American battle against microcephaly threat

This year's World Water Day focuses on how quantity and quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods.

Ten percent of the world's population do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

Authorities in Brittany took the unusual step after a job posting failed to attract a single applicant.

Researchers believe it could be an improvement on the PSA test currently available to GPs.

Hypnotherapy divides scientists, but some say it has helped them address a major problem in their lives.

An experiment shows smell could be a pathway to erratic alcoholic behaviours.

Elizabethkingia anophelis bacteria is common in the environment but until now has rarely caused infections.

World Sleep Day is marked on 18 March 2016 to raise awareness of sleep disorders and healthy sleep.

Nightmare sufferers who also struggle with PTSD are particularly at risk.

GW Pharmaceuticals drug Epidiolex shows positive results in study for epilepsy treatment.

Chancellor's sin tax started to dissolve under scrutiny from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

People feel a greater religious influence in their life when they consider how different events have shaped it.

A study looks at how rats affect psychological well-being of people who spot them regularly.

These are dangerous medications that carry the risk of addiction and overdose death, says CDC head.

UNICEFF hopes drones shuttling blood tests to key labs will save time in battle to save lives

Refugees who have left everything behind to flee conflict are three times more at risk of mental illnesses