The risk of developing bunions - bony growths on the big toe - is linked to your family, not your shoes, a US study has shown.
The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested.
The latest food scandal in China - which has seen rat meat passed off as lamb - has raised more questions about food safety in the country.
Drinking one or more cans of sugary soft drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of diabetes in later life, a study suggests.
Carrying excess weight around the abdomen is linked to an increased risk of kidney disease, a study suggests.
Eye drops designed to lower cholesterol may be able to prevent one of the most common forms of blindness, according to US researchers.
We waste a third of our lives sleeping – or that’s how some people see it. When there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, you yearn to be like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was said to get by on just four hours sleep a night, or the artist Salvador Dali who wasted as little time as possible slumbering.....
Obese cardiac patients are less likely to die than their normal weight counterparts, say researchers.
Around 160,000 men in the UK have been left with little or no sex life after treatment for prostate cancer, the Macmillan Cancer Support charity says.
US researchers have found a link between working night shifts and the risk of ovarian cancer.
Rapid treatment after HIV infection may be enough to "functionally cure" about a 10th of those diagnosed early, say researchers in France.
European men are lagging behind women in terms of life expectancy, a major new report reveals.
Fatty arteries may not just be a curse of modern unhealthy lifestyles, say researchers who used scans to look at the heart health of mummies.
Video gaming for hours is exhausting, so surely it counts as some sort of workout too, right? One publication from Japan just estimated how many calories it takes to click a mouse button once.
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