In Kirstie Alley’s advert for QVC's Organic Liaison, the actress is shown before and after her extreme weight loss. In her advert, Kirstie Alley, 61,...
A race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100 is set to begin next year, after a US team announced it will compete...
A Dutch study has found that severely obese children are putting their heart at danger even while they are still in primary school. Heart disease...
Scientists in the US have created a free swimming artificial jellyfish using silicone as a base on which to grow heart muscle cells that...
It seems the hottest new healthy food fad is “eating alkaline”as the actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Kirsten Dunst have recently revealed they “eat alkaline”. Jennifer...
Experts writing in the Lancet have explained that drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade. Studies on 26,000...
World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has advised that cutting back on salty foods such as bacon, bread and breakfast cereals may reduce people's risk...
It is well known that many men nod off straight after sex and now scientists conducted research which involved scanning the brains of men...
Europe is on the process of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field. Gene...
US researchers claim that omelettes, meringues and pasta could one-day be back on the menu for some people with egg allergies after they are...
A new study published in Lancet suggests that a lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world. The report,...
Truvada is the first drug approved by Food and Drug Administration to be used for HIV infection prevention. Truvada, made by California-based Gilead Sciences, can...
A simple walking test could show if Alzheimer’s patients have the disease, say researchers after they found a link between the two. In one test...
Scientists say that having regular lie-ins in old age can bring on dementia. Getting too much or too little sleep increases your mental age by...
Children who watch TV an increased number of hours between the ages of two and four years old risk larger waistlines by age 10. A...
Jewish and Muslim groups living in Europe have joined forces to defend circumcision for young boys on religious grounds after a German regional court...
A team at Washington University School of Medicine has assembled a "timeline" of the unseen progress of Alzheimer's before symptoms appear. Scientists looked at families...
Scientists found that limiting the time we spend sitting to just three hours a day could add an extra two years to our life...
US scientist Prof. Philip Low is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof. Stephen Hawking which he says could help...
A patient has been diagnosed with cholera in the Cuban capital, Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern...
Scientists have developed EP67, a new spray that helps boost the immune system can fight off flu in just two hours - even before...
A new anti-cellulite cream, called BioElixia Bodyshaper, has found word-of-mouth success since its high street launch. The magic in this latest potion is, apparently, a...
Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralyzed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a...
A ballot measure proposing that adult production actors in Los Angeles County wear condoms during filming will be put to voters in November's election. The...
French academics in an IVF clinic found that time-lapse photography has shown that embryos of smoking women develop more slowly. Experts took regular pictures of...