Health

Apple's latest mobile operating system has been announced at WWDC, featuring a new hotly anticipated health app

OECD highlights link between financial hardship and obesity in developed economies.

UK's biggest grocer removes chocolates and sweets from nearby tills to help obesity fight

Porn is destroying young people's minds 'like cocaine', claims scientist.

India's aviation authority says flight attendants should be declared unfit if their BMI is not 'normal'.

Samsung's Chairman Lee Kun-hee is in a stable condition in hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home.

Study claims 75% of UK men will be obese or overweight by 2030.

Children born in Britain are more likely to die before reaching their fifth birthday in any other western European country apart from Malta

New research by Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council has revealed how dietary fibre suppresses appetite.

'Super-fit' rugby player Lloyd Walsh drops dead minutes after complaining of headache.

There may have been a financial crisis, but one industry has remained intact.

Everything you need to know about the newly discovered 'WhatsAppitis.'

Google co-founder Larry Page believes that sharing anonymised medical records could save 100,000 lives.

Details of Apple's Healthbook app show just how ambitious the company is being in the health and fitness market.

Lean Machine beer claimed to help drinkers recover 'after an aggressive workout'.

Exclusive: Sally Gunnell says musculoskeletal pain is the biggest cause of sickness absence.

Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) can cause mental disability and death

Researchers develop body shape index test more accurate than BMI.

ONS says amount of days lost is sharply down from 178 million days in 1993.

Research reveals leprosy could be oldest human-specific infection.

He Er'xiu drank homemade rice wine and worked out regularly.

Every additional hour a day spent sitting could double risk of disability, scientists warn.

Investors in People says over 50% of employees work for firms unconcerned about workers' health.

Will Apple's iWatch be a Health-first device?

Lithopedion is a condition in which a foetus develops and dies outside the uterus.

Health and environmental debate is moot

Brazil university study says smoking cuts down lung function.

Three-quarters of people in parts of England are obese, according to the National Obesity Forum.

Saadiya Saleh produces small, hard stones beneath her eyelids instead of tears.

Today is the day when employees are most likely to take a day off from work.