Health/Science

PEOPLE with poor oral hygiene are more at risk of heart disease compared with those who brush their teeth twice a day. A Scottish study released today by University College London  researchers looked over data […] […]

DOCTOR Grant Woo has been banned from practicing after admitting that he performed bizarre sexual examinations on naked female patients. He tricked one woman into letting him internally examine her after convincing her he needed […] […]

A FATHER has described his four-year-old son as having “the smile of an angel” after he died in his arms of an ultra-rare disease. Kenny Handford had contacted one of the world’s foremost experts on […] […]

A plucky pensioner who has beaten cancer three times and survived several heart attacks is having a party…to celebrate her life. Norma Reed is using money she would have spent on a funeral for the […] […]

A man, whose hips were broken following a surgery procedure which went wrong, has won a five-year battle against NHS chiefs. Former lorry driver Gerald Morgan, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, has received a six figure […] […]

The spread of Aids can be dramatically curbed by the use of anti-retroviral drugs which cut transmission of the disease by more than 90 per cent, a study has found. As well as extending the […] […]

When does the courts and medical profession have the rights to over-ride the decision of a patient? One of our fundamental rights is the ability to make decisions that govern our own lives and when, […] […]

A cancer patient is to be forced to undergo life-saving treatment against her wishes after a landmark ruling by a judge. Doctors will be allowed forcibly to sedate the 55-year-old woman in her home and […] […]

BRISTOL Palin called experiencing pregnancy in the spotlight of the 2008 presidential campaign “humiliating” and described the father of her child, Levi Johnston, as “a stranger”. “Great, I’m 17 years old, I’m 40 pounds overweight […] […]

Some parents-to-be are desperate to decide the sex of their new baby. Under current UK law this is not allowed, except in order to avoid gender-linked diseases, such as haemophilia and muscular dystrophy. In this […] […]