Health, Medicine, and Fitness

US scientists link long life with those people who have inherited a particular enzyme which prevents cells from ageing. - 12 hours ago

Calorie counts used as the foundation for diets and healthy-eating guidance may be wrong, a report says. - 12 hours ago

Patients complaining of grinding their teeth in their sleep are being given mild electric shock treatment. - 2 days ago

Sunbeds should be banned for under-18s in England, a charity says after a survey suggests 250,000 are risking skin cancer. - 2 days ago

A surgical method to regrow breasts after surgery has proven successful in tests on pigs, say researchers. - 3 days ago

Children with dyslexia find it harder to hear in noisy classrooms than those without the condition, a US study says. - 2 days ago

A hospital in Weston with a low-risk maternity unit is sending overweight women to a hospital 20 miles away to give birth. - 2 days ago

Changes and extra investment since 2000 in critical care in England are saving 4,000 lives a year, researchers say. - 3 days ago

For at least 2,000-years, medicine was locked in a struggle between those who viewed it as an art and those who saw it as a science. Until the last century, most medical practitioners were guided by intuition and tradition, not by science. - 88 minutes ago

Like the flu, a person's emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you'll likely feel sad; think about the elderly, and you'll tend to walk slower. Now a study suggests that we can also catch someone else's irrational thought processes. - 5 hours ago

A few alternatives to our most popular obscenity - 9 hours ago

Women may have a reputation as the chattier gender, but research into the matter shows that men may actually be a little more talkative than women-though it all depends on the situation. - 7 hours ago

Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion limits. - 19 hours ago

MONTEREY, Calif. -- While many are lining up in droves to get the H1N1 vaccine, others are seeking a more natural way to fight the swine flu virus, KSBW in Monterey reported. - 10 hours ago

Imagine a hospital in the high drama style of medical TV: lights race down a long, sterile hallway making the surgery ride agonizingly fast. Gurney wheels squeak as fear drips into your IV. Echoes of pain bounce off the walls and expand just as you begin to choke. - 10 hours ago

STUDENTS and clubbers are buying a new designer drug billed as "a cross between cocaine and ecstasy" over the internet. Drug experts are alarmed by the emergence of mystery drug Mephedrone - known on the street as MM-Cat, Plant Food, Meow and 4-MMC. - 10 hours ago