Health/Science

By Alice Hart-Davis Coming soon: e-pulse is already available in the US in RoC’s Brilliance line and will arrive in the UK, with a different name, in the autumn One reason I love this job […] […]

Dr Christian Jessen [Right] My own parents now sound like seasoned drug users, the way they talk about M-cat, plant food and meow meow. Not because they are, I should add, but because the papers […] […]

Dr Christian Jessen [right] I read an awful lot of rubbish about health. Magazines are full of tips: how carbs should never be eaten after 7pm, how you must drink two litres of water a […] […]

Nearly 4 million Americans — the vast majority of them middle-class — will have to pay the new penalty for not getting health insurance when President Obama’s healthcare overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional […] […]

On January 4, 2010 the ban preventing non citizens of the United States who are living with HIV /AIDS from entering the country was lifted. The significance of this has not been lost on the […] […]

RBC/RBTT comes to the rescue of children diagnosed with paediatric cancer THESE days, Trinidadian Maria Corneal has a hard time keeping up with her two-year-old son. But it was always like this. Some months ago […] […]

Dreaming may be a sign our brain is working hard in our sleep Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory – as long as you dream, scientists say. They found […] […]

Scientists now hope to test their theory in clinical trials Viruses can be modified to find and destroy cancer cells, according to scientists at the University of Leeds. Their research found that proteins could be […] […]

Louis Austin [right]  had a rare form of diabetes An eight-year-old boy died from diabetes after being misdiagnosed with swine flu by an out-of-hours doctor service, an inquest has been told. Louis Austin, from Old […] […]

Quick treatment with flu medicine saved the lives of many pregnant women who were stricken by swine flu last year, according to the most complete analysis of deaths among expectant mothers. The study by the […] […]