Health/Science

DESPITE being confined to her bed due to severe pains from bone cancer, eight-year-old Faith Hutchinson is anxious to return to school. First she wants to continue her studies in pursuit of her dream to […] […]

IN WHAT is arguably the most significant use of genetic knowledge to tackle disease, scientists in California have created a drug that prevents the effects of a gene mutation linked to malignant melanoma. The London […] […]

BOSTON – An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the […] […]

BRITISH baby boomers are being urged to practice safe sex after new figures showed an alarming rise in sexually transmitted infections among the over-50s. Health charity Family Planning Association has launched a national campaign using […] […]

A FINNISH court is to hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient’s nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives’ trick. ower courts earlier […] […]

Women who discover they cannot have children after trying to start a family too late have been given new hope by scientists in a major advance in understanding infertility. Researchers at Newcastle University have uncovered […] […]

CHILDREN with a dry night cough, eczema or who wheeze with exercise have more than eight times the risk of asthma attack under anaesthetic. The situation can be fatal if corrective drugs fail. The same […] […]

BATON ROUGE, La.—Louisiana health officials are suspending the license of an abortion clinic after an investigation found health and safety risks to women. Officials on Friday ordered the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport […] […]

CATHERINE Zeta-Jones has described her anger and frustration that her husband Michael Douglas’s throat cancer – which he revealed this week is at an advanced stage – went undiagnosed for so long. Welsh-born actor Zeta-Jones […] […]