New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation suggests that legalization and greater retail availability of recreational marijuana is positively...

Almost completely paralyzed by a terminal illness, 42-year-old Peruvian Ana Estrada says she is a “prisoner in her own body” and yearns to be legally allowed to end her own life. But Peru...

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Offering HIV screening to new patients in general practice on a routine basis increases testing rates and improves detection and earlier diagnosis, research co-led by Queen Mary University of London and...

Mother’s £6,000 breast implants ‘fall out of her chest’ after botched surgery at a cut-price Turkish clinic ‘promoted by celebrities’ Angelica Isaksen, 27, from Stockholm,...

Michelangelo’s David is perhaps the world’s most famous statue, gazed upon by millions over centuries. And yet it’s only this year that an American doctor has spotted an anatomical insight...

Women who spend longer periods of their early lives in less affluent neighbourhoods are at greater risk of experiencing violence during their early adulthoods at the hands of their intimate partners,...