Health/Science

Living life to a tight deadline, juggling appointments and rushing from place to place may harm a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant. In the first study to provide evidence that stress reduces the chances of […] […]

FIVE of the 15 experts that advised the World Health Organisation about swine flu pandemic alerts had received support from the drugs industry, including for flu vaccine research, the WHO revealed overnight. The agency released […] […]

A British children’s hospital is coating the toys in its wards with a revolutionary form of “liquid glass” that has proven in trials to reduce the number of disease-causing bacteria living on the surface of […] […]

PLASTIC surgery patients have carried a new class of superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics from South Asia to Britain and they could spread worldwide, researchers said today. Many hospital infections that were already difficult […] […]

MONTHS of coughing had Ron Sveden worried that something was very wrong, but the Massachussets, man never expected doctors to tell him he had plant growing in his lungs. Fits of coughing and a lingering […] […]

Having difficulty in achieving and maintaining an erection to allow sexual intercourse is described as erectile dysfunction or ED. According to the National Institutes of Health, United States (US), most men experience occasional failure to […] […]

Health authorities say swine flu could still be rising in some regions after the fourth death linked to the virus this year. A 44-year-old Christchurch woman, who tested positive for swine flu, or H1N1 virus, […] […]

Caroline Loo climbed into her dying daughter’s hospital bed and loved her to death. Loo said Sara’s last hour was the “perfect ending to an amazing life”.  “It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever […] […]

LIMP, shrimp, wet and dry. That’s how one patient sums up his post-prostate cancer surgery state. Limp because he could no longer get an erection, shrimp because his penis had shrunk a couple of centimetres, […] […]

PARENTS and doctors in China fear that hormones in milk powder they fed their infant daughters have led the babies to develop breasts. Medical tests indicated the levels of hormones estradiol and prolactin in three […] […]