Health/Science

Oscar-winning US actor Michael Douglas, 65, is fighting throat cancer and will undergo chemotherapy, People magazine reported Monday. Hollywood royalty Douglas, a son of screen legend Kirk Douglas, was set to receive eight weeks of […] […]

THERE are many different factors that can affect a woman’s natural ability to get and stay lubricated. Under normal circumstances, the vagina naturally produces lubricating fluid that facilitates things like sexual intercourse. Plasma seepage from […] […]

SHE is Germany’s fallen angel: a pop star named Nadja Benaissa who is accused of infecting at least one lover with HIV. At a court in Darmstadt yesterday, the 28-year-old singer from the girl group […] […]

NEW YORK—Katrina Clark and Lindsay Greenawalt have much in common. Bright women in their 20s, raised by single mothers, keenly curious about the men whose donated sperm helped give them life. Clark’s search for her […] […]

A LEADING cancer specialist defended his prognosis that led to the Lockerbie bomber being released from prison on compassionate grounds. Professor Karol Sikora said he would have made his evidence “more vague” if he had […] […]

LONDON, England (AP) — People getting cosmetic surgery in India have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance […] […]

BRITAIN – A new era of “intelligent medicines” is being heralded with the disclosure that the NHS is about to begin trials of pills that contain a microchip, reminding patients when to take them. When […] […]

DOZENS of women are waiting to discover if they will need to be treated for breast cancer after a British screening service failed to pick up signs of malignant cells. Eight women screened in North […] […]

A dangerous new mutation that makes some bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics has become increasingly common in India and Pakistan and is being found in patients in Britain and the United States who got […] […]

LONDON—The British government said Monday it would continue giving free milk each day to school children under 5 years old, despite a drive to sharply cut public spending. Prime Minister David Cameron’s office confirmed that […] […]