For our bodies to function at full capacity and stay healthy, it is essential that we adopt a nutritious weight loss diet. Basically, nutrition is all about feeding on food that provides us with vital...

Johnson & Johnson will spend $16.6 billion to buy cardiovascular technology company Abiomed to strengthen its medical device division. The health care giant said Tuesday that it will pay $380 for...

Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part...

A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine is the first evidence in humans that short-term lifestyle changes can disrupt the response to insulin of blood vessels. It’s also the...

Dr Nighat says aspirin can reduce risks of some cancers We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us...

Vitamin D levels affect overall survival for melanoma (skin cancer) patients, a new study presented at the 31st European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress has shown. Dermatology researchers...

Why cholesterol is bad for you We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on...

Swedish paleontologist who discovered that there’s a bit of Neanderthal in all of us wins Nobel Prize for Medicine – as Covid vaccine breakthroughs are shunned again Professor Svante Pääbo’s...

New trial data from drugmaker Pfizer shows promising results of a vaccine given to mothers during pregnancy that later protects infants in their first months from the worst effects of respiratory syncytial...

BLANTYRE (Reuters) – The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi accelerated to 180 from 110 in October, the minister of health said on Monday, raising the likelihood that the situation could...