Health/Science

IT HAS arrived much later this winter, but experts say the swine flu is now on Australia’s doorstep. Transmission of the a(H1N1) virus has been elevated in New Zealand for several weeks, The Influenza Specialist […] […]

ABUJA, Nigeria—All of Nigeria is at risk in a cholera epidemic that has killed 352 people in only three-months time, health officials warned Wednesday, as the country’s rainy season continues to spread the water-born infection. […] […]

LOS ANGELES (AFB) — A Los Angeles judge has set a January 2011 hearing to weigh whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Michael Jackson’s doctor with involuntary manslaughter over the singer’s death. Los Angeles […] […]

Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not mean cutting back on meat, says new research – the trick may be to switch our diet to insects. The raising of livestock such as […] […]

Swine flu is continuing to spread in New Zealand, with some areas reporting higher hospital inpatient rates than during last year’s pandemic. So far 10 deaths have been linked to pandemic influenza H1N1 this year, […] […]

The cost of dying has taken on a new twist – you can now put a funeral on layby. Funeral Directors Association executive member Gavin Murphy said the scheme would meet market demand as many […] […]

FIRST they crawled into trendy New York clothing stores like Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch. Then they turned their attention to the Time Warner headquarters. Now an infestation of bedbugs has been found at one […] […]

When Silvia Petretti was diagnosed with HIV she thought her life had come to an end. She was 30 years old and had contracted malaria after a holiday in Senegal. The doctors ordered blood tests […] […]

THOUSANDS of patients waiting for a kidney transplant will be offered new hope today by research that could vastly increase the number of donor organs available in Britain on the NHS. More patients could receive […] […]

DNA tests on the exhumed body of chess genius Bobby Fischer have shown he was not the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines, ending a paternity claim against his estate. The test result […] […]