Health News
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| Lung Cancer Risk Higher to Women Smokers Research also shows female smokers are more likely to be diagnosed at a younger age |
Obesity: Blame the Ancestors Urge to eat big portions traced back to expansion of human brain two million years ago |
| The Hidden Cost of Our Growing Taste for Meat Planting soya for animal feed is causing deforestation and destroying eco-systems in developing countries |
Incense Smoke May Increase the Risk of Developing Some Cancers A study suggests that burning joss sticks raises the risk of certain mouth, throat and lung cancers |
| Vitamin E Supplements Increase the Risk of Lung Cancer People who take daily supplements of vitamin E have a slightly higher risk of developing lung cancer, according to one of... |
Lipitor Ad Lands Pfizer in Hot Water A few problems have surfaced with how well-known American scientist Robert Jarvik endorsed blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug |
| The Outbreak of Hysteria That's No Fun at All Stuart Jeffries: On September 26, a student at William Byrd high school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia reported... |
World Hiv Infection Estimate is Cut The UN and the World Health Organization significantly cut their estimates of the number of people with the HIV virus today... |
| Daily Sex Can Help to Repair Sperm, Says Fertility Doctor Frequent sexual activity improves the genetic quality of sperm and may help some couples conceive, fertility specialists... |
First World Results on a Third World Budget According to Michael Moore's latest film Sicko, Cuba's medical care puts America's to shame. Rory Carroll investigates. |
| Albert Ellis Obituary: Influential American psychologist who led the revolution in cognitive therapy. |
Glaxo Targets Us Minorities With Launch of Weight-loss Drug Pill aimed at grabbing slice of £500m spent every year - Concerns over messy and dangerous side-effects |
| Alzheimer's Vaccine Works on Mice, Says Japanese Scientist Scientists in Japan have developed an oral vaccine for Alzheimer's disease that has proved effective in mice, raising hopes... |
Vaccine on a Skin Patch May Stave Off Alzheimer's A skin patch that delivers a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease could be available for high-risk patients within six years... |
| Plastic Surgeon to the Stars Jailed for Using Industrial Gel He was charming and handsome, and as his business grew, sure enough so did his bank balance, to more than $1m. The problem... |
Allen Carr Obituary: Anti-smoking guru who made a fortune helping millions of people break the habit of a lifetime. |
| WHO Aims to Wipe Out Polio Within Four Years · New vaccine targets last strongholds of killer virus · Global eradication would be first since smallpox |
Men Clamour to Try Out Silicone Alternative to Vasectomy American scientists are to widen trials of a male contraceptive, after having been approached by men eager to try it out as... |
| Man Rejects First Penis Transplant Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an... |
Cyclist Beats Heat, Dogs and Illness to Finish 4,200-mile Ride Cancer patient Jane Tomlinson pedalled her bicycle into Battery Park in lower Manhattan yesterday morning, completing an... |
| China's Alarming Increase in Obesity Blamed on More Affluent Lifestyle · One-fifth of world's overweight are Chinese · Increased car use and meatier diet responsible |
Circumcision May Be the Answer to Aids, Says Clinton Bill Clinton called for the world to prepare to tackle the cultural taboos surrounding circumcision yesterday if, as many... |
| Obesity Linked to Aids Fears in South Africa The Hottentot Venus would no doubt have disputed the claim, but an authority on obesity has blamed the rising number of... |
Meat Stew and a Nap: the Sumo Fitness Dvd It probably wasn't what Jane Fonda had in mind when she pioneered the home workout craze: fitness advice from grossly... |
| Sin or Wrinkles Face Malaysia's Botox Users Wrinkled faces or a life of sin is the choice facing Malaysia's majority Muslim population after the country's National... |
Malaysian Muslims Told Not to Use Botox Wrinkled faces or a life of sin is the choice facing Malaysia's majority Muslim population after the country's National... |
| Research Links Autism to Brain Abnormalities Autistic men have striking abnormalities in a region of the brain that deals with social skills, according to research... |
Stressed Out? That's a Laugh I was told to ring a dentist in Old Delhi for advice on how to sign up for classes on laughter yoga. |
| LA Puts the Heat on Yogi to the Stars Even for a brand of yoga famed for extreme heat and regimentation - a uniform sequence of 26 poses performed at... |
Ali Squares Up to Obesity Crisis With Snack Line In the days when he could "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee", Muhammad Ali sparred with the... |
| America's New Healthy Eaters Find an Unlikely Ally: Wal-Mart Largest retailer boosts organic market as nation tackles bulging waistlines. |
First Cervical Cancer Vaccine Approved in Us The US medicines watchdog today granted a licence for the first vaccine against cervical cancer, which kills around 240,000... |
| Obituary: Norman Shumway Leading US heart transplant surgeon, who conquered the perils of rejection. |
Super Bowl Will Be a Giant Game of Overeating So who ate all the snacks? Even by their gargantuan standards of over-indulgence, couch potato Americans are preparing to... |
| Brain Food As new research published today reveals a link between poor diet and mental ill health, Fran Gorman says it's time for the... |
Bestselling Diet is 'recipe for Trouble' A fat-busting diet craze that knocked Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code off the top of Australia's bestseller list has... |
| Miracle Berry Lets Japanese Dieters Get Sweet From Sour · West African fruit offers low-calorie sugar option · Taste buds tricked into liking blandest desserts |
Freudians Slip in Battle to Shape French Minds Psychological warfare has broken out over a book that calls on the French people to stop blaming their parents. The Livre... |
| Coffee a Good Source of Antioxidants If your hand is trembling over your third coffee of the morning, do not despair. You could be getting more healthy... |
US Gets Fatter - and Faster Than Ever Americans are getting fatter at a pace never seen before while government-led attempts to hold in bulging waistlines are... |
| Fat Fortune for Diet Town, Usa Overweight flock to the city that promises to conquer obesity. |
Doctors Call for Money to Fight Spread of Bird Flu The fight against bird flu is at a critical stage where a global human pandemic could easily break out unless wealthy... |
| WHO says Aids drug target unlikely to be hit One million people in developing countries are now taking Aids drugs, according to figures released yesterday by the World... |
Little Exercise, Little Fresh Food. Now the Us Government is Forced to Act on Obesity Special unit sent into West Virginia as weight-related health problems soar. |
| Taking the Pill Could Reduce Women's Libido, Us Scientists Claim Researchers at Boston University Medical College found that women who take the pill regularly have much lower levels of the... |
Bird Flu Virus 'close to Pandemic' A leading scientist warned yesterday that the avian flu virus is on the point of mutating into a pandemic disease and says... |
| Flu Pandemic 'could Hit 20% of World's Population' A global taskforce should be urgently formed to tackle a potential influenza pandemic that could affect 20% of the world's... |
Cancer Patients Take Their Hopes to Tijuana Border city is world alternative therapy centre. |
| Americans Seek Bodily Salvation Through Jesus Diet Man does not live on bread alone, but Americans have become increasingly reliant on doughy carbohydrates in their diet. Now... |
Being Fat 'lessens Risk of Early Death' Carrying a few extra pounds may not be as bad for your life expectancy as was previously thought, US researchers suggested... |
| Raising Children As Vegans 'unethical', Says Professor A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying... |
US Acts Over Drug Safety Scares American regulators yesterday tried to restore confidence in the battered drugs industry by announcing the formation of an... |
| Spaniards Sign Up for Destruction Therapy Stressed-out Spaniards are being offered the opportunity to smash their way back to inner peace with the aid of a... |
Red Wine Beats Alcopops Dutch scientists have confirmed that red wine is healthier than an alcopop. A binge drinking experiment showed those who... |
| US Investigates Flu Vaccine Shortage The United States attorney's office has opened an investigation into last week's closure of a Liverpool factory that led to... |
Drug Firm Plays Up Long Flights Fear Observer investigation reveals covert funding for health pressure groups. On one side of the picture a sleeping woman lies... |
| Lifespan Crisis Hits Supersize America Bloated, blue-collar Americans - gorged on diets of fries and burgers, but denied their share of US riches - are bringing... |
Women of Spain Live the Longest Spanish women are the longest living group of people in Europe, according to figures from the EU's Eurostat department.... |
| Fat is Fabulous, Insist Anti-diet Protesters Backlash against the thin ideal condemns diets and calls for end to discrimination. |
From Cancer to Cycling Superman: is This the Greatest Story in Modern Sport? Seven years after completing treatment for cancer so virulent that he was given only a 40% chance of survival, the American... |
| Mobiles Cut Sperm Count, Says Report Men who carry mobile phones in their trouser pockets may be at risk of damaging their sperm count, according to research by... |
Sports Supplement That Holds the Key to a Woman's Libido Forget candlelit dinners, chocolate and oysters: the secret of a woman's libido lies in a hormone used in America as a... |
| A Bitter Pill for Private Health New Labour-style choice is winning the ideological battle for the NHS. Today there is a great political tournament. The... |
Slimmer Sues Atkins Over Cholesterol A man who claims his cholesterol level shot up after he went on the Atkins diet is suing the estate of Robert Atkins and... |
| Incontinence Cured By Botox, Say Researchers It has been blamed for everything from food poisoning to John Kerry's wrinkle-free face, but Australian researchers say... |
Black Women in Us 23 Times As Likely to Get Aids Virus African-American women are 23 times as likely to be infected with the Aids virus as white women and account for 71.8% of... |
| Cholesterol-buster Raises Safety Concerns 'When diet and exercise aren't enough," says the jaunty slogan, alongside a picture of a sprightly couple leaping into... |
Obesity Close to Smoking As Cause of Death in Us Obesity is closing in on smoking as the number one cause of death in the US as Americans continue to pack on the pounds. A... |
| Urgent Message to Those on Atkins Diet His books continue to drive the eating habits of millions of people across the world who are desperate to find a reliable... |
The Allergy Epidemic: By 2015 Half of Us May Be Carrying One of These Half of all Europeans may be suffering from some sort of allergy by 2015 if the escalating epidemic, which is responsible... |
| Immunisation Drive Could Wipe Out Polio By End of 2004 Polio could be eradicated by the end of 2004 in one final last ambitious push to immunise 250 million children several... |
US Accused of Sabotaging Obesity Strategy The US was accused yesterday of trying to scupper the World Health Organisation's guidelines designed to curb the rising... |
| New Bird Flu Could Be Worse Than Sars The bird flu ravaging several east Asian countries - and which has been blamed for the deaths of at least three Vietnamese... |
Dying of Neglect Sarah Boseley on the struggle to cure sleeping sickness, kala azar and other 'forgotten' diseases. It just seems like an... |
| Atkins Diet May Curb Epilepsy The Atkins diet - not always seen as a healthy way to shed weight - may help to prevent fits in children with epilepsy, a... |
Cut-price Drugs Offer Hope to Millions WHO sets out strategy for getting treatment to three million in the developing world. The World Health Organisation... |
| Flagging Us Males Turn to Testosterone Treatment Testosterone has joined viagra as one of the most popular prescriptions for men of a certain age who suffer from what has... |
The Comatose Woman Tearing the Us Apart For 13 years Terri Schiavo has been in a coma - with her husband, her parents, the Christian right and now the president's... |
| Panel Backs Silicon Implants Silicon breast implants taken off the US market 11 years ago should be made available to all women who want them, a panel... |
Electronic chip to detect Sars Singapore hopes to launch in January an electronic chip that will give an almost instant diagnosis of whether a person has... |
| World's oldest man dies in Japan aged 114 The secret of a long and healthy life could lie in a daily glass of milk. Yukichi Chuganji, who was the world's oldest man... |
Gates Gives £100m to Wipe Out Malaria World's richest man tackles killer of 1 million a year. What do you do with your money if you are the richest man in the... |
| Drug ads row snares Cronkite 'Infomercial' may land veteran US broadcaster in court. He is known as "the most trusted man in America" - the... |
Alarm in South-east Asia As Tests Confirm Sars Case Two months after the global outbreak of the Sars virus was declared to be over, Singapore announced that a 27-year-old... |
| Chewing the fad In death, as in life, Dr Robert Atkins cheated the po-faced medical community. Everyone wanted him to die of a huge... |
Medical Use of Cannabis Approved The Netherlands yesterday became the first country to legalise the medical use of cannabis, allowing doctors to prescribe... |
| Scientists Discover How French Stay Slim Scientists have another solution for the riddle of how a nation of alcohol-quaffing, croissant-munching gourmands stays... |
Aids Specialist Wins First Round in Azt Patent Fight The Aids Healthcare Foundation, the largest non-governmental supplier of Aids treatment to patients in the United States,... |
| Health Risks Warning on Body Art Dyes A gruesome list of illnesses and health problems contracted by people who have had tattoos or piercings which went wrong... |
Minister Makes French Hypochondriacs Cough Up for 'imaginary' Medication Europe's champion pill-poppers will be denied several hundred of their favourite prescription drugs from today when the... |
| Sars Epidemic Could Recur Only two out of nine experts say humans are safe. Sars, the virus which emerged in China in February and spread to 32... |
Why Won't We Kick Their Butts? If you are waiting for a smoking ban, don't hold your breath. There are some fundamental principles with which the true... |
| Anti-ageism Laws Will Be Good for All Allowing us have-it-all postwar baby boomers to keep working will be good for my generation and the young. Here we go! The... |
Lawsuits frighten Kraft into fighting flab Kraft Foods, the world's biggest maker of processed foods, said yesterday that it would shrink its ready-made meals and... |
| You Can't Outwit God Don't book that 125th birthday party yet. A pill is not the answer. Obituary columns have the secondary purpose, beyond... |
Mosquito Virus Fear on Sodden Us Coast Inhabitants of the east coast of the US are being warned of a possible severe outbreak of the deadly West Nile virus... |
| Stress not a stranger to Japanese In a country where worn-out commuters fall asleep on their feet in trains and staff demonstrate loyalty by failing to take... |
Japanese peak in old age To celebrate his 99th birthday Keizo Miura flew to the other side of the world and skied down a glacier in the French Alps.... |
| Woman Wins Hiv Test Ruling Two doctors have been told to pay a Sydney woman more than A$700,000 (£290,000) in damages for failing to inform her that... |
Rare and Lethal African Virus Alarms America American health officials in three Midwestern states are scrambling to contain a rare and lethal virus that is spread by... |
| 'Ban All Tobacco' - Us Health Chief The surgeon general of the United States, Richard Carmona, has said he would support the abolition of cigarettes and all... |
Death row inmate may jump transplant queue A death row prisoner in Oregon who has kidney disease could receive a transplant ahead of thousands of other patients... |
| Sars fear comes back to Toronto Canada is reeling from the shock of discovering it may have at least 20 new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome... |
Bayer 'put Asians in Danger of Hiv' A division of pharmaceutical company Bayer knowingly sold blood-clotting agents infected with the human immunodeficiency... |
| Pricing policies exposed The World Health Organisation is to publish a survey of the prices of medicines, exposing the secrecy of the pharmaceutical... |
Hope rises in Africa for Aids vaccine Skim low over Lake Victoria on the approach to Entebbe and with a setting sun you catch a glint from the white buildings... |
| Spend more to save children from malaria, west urged Malaria, already responsible for at least a fifth of all deaths of children under five in Africa, will continue to increase... |
Obese people at greater risk of cancer Overweight people are more likely to get cancer, according to research published today. The study in the New England... |
| In the Time It Takes You to Read This Article Pfizer Will Make $250,000. So Does It Have a Duty to Provide Cheap Drugs to the Poor? Shareholders will gather in Michigan today to hear about the soaring profits of the world's largest pharmaceutical company.... |
Five cups of tea keep the doctor away American scientists have found a way to tune up the immune system and perhaps see off emerging cancer cells. The recipe: a... |
| What it is and how to avoid it A serious disease which first seems to have emerged in the Guangdong province of southern China in November last year,... |
Hong Kong mops up as Sars toll rises Twelve more Sars patients have died in Hong Kong, pushing the death toll there to 81, officials said today, following a... |
| Sars Spreads to India The first suspected cases of Sars were today reported in Australia and India, as signs emerged that the Chinese government... |
Sars Claims Young Victims in Hong Kong Chinese president ends silence on epidemic. Health officials in Hong Kong are trying to establish why six relatively young... |
| Young People Predominate in Latest Sars Deaths Another seven people have died from Sars in Hong Kong, raising the country's death toll from the virus to 47 and the global... |
Quarantine tags to curb Sars spread Singaporean authorities have ordered that people quarantined for the mystery Sars virus be electronically tagged in an... |
| Singapore Dispatch: How the Country is Coping With Sars John Aglionby visits the country with the highest Sars-related death rate. Last Saturday, Singapore thought it had contained... |
Flu panic spreads across Asia Governments across Asia invoked emergency measures yesterday, including establishing quarantine camps in Hong Kong, to try... |
| Mystery Disease Spreads: 75 New Cases Seventy-five people have been infected by a mystery flu bug in Hong Kong in the last day, bringing the total number of... |
Aids is God's Challenge - Sa Minister Aids might be an opportunity provided by God for South Africa to care for its people, its health minister, Manto... |
| New 'flu' Claims 34 Lives in China China dramatically raised the death toll from the new Asian virus yesterday, admitting that it had killed 34 people there... |
Women Bear Brunt of Aids Toll In male-dominated South Africa, the shocking incidence of rape means the HIV epidemic is hitting women hardest. |
| Aids Protesters Accuse Pretoria Ministers of Manslaughter Hundreds of Aids activists gathered illegally and marched into South African police stations yesterday to begin a campaign... |
Alert Raised Over Killer Pneumonia An unusual and lethal variety of pneumonia that first appeared in Asia but is now travelling the globe has become "a... |
| Aids Activists Resort to Civil Disobedience Activists in South Africa are planning to launch a civil disobedience campaign this week to pressure President Thabo Mbeki... |
South Africa Appoints Consultant Who Rules Out Aids/hiv Link The South African government was embroiled in a fresh row over its Aids policy yesterday when the health ministry confirmed... |
| Commonsense courage My friend Sue Ayling is going to die, probably by the end of next year. Her form of breast cancer has been particularly... |
Bayer denies it knew of drug risk before withdrawal German health care and pharmaceuticals group Bayer yesterday hit back at reports that executives may have known about... |
| Aids Vaccine Fails Clinical Tests The world's first attempted Aids vaccine proved a failure yesterday when, after four years' work, the Californian biotech... |
Mexican family's medical odyssey ends in tragedy Girl whose transplant campaign captured US public attention dies after basic error at renowned hospital. With the flick of... |
| Vegetarians put faith in Jesus Americans seeking divine inspiration in the latest step of their quest for health, fitness and beauty are fuelling a... |
Medical Practices Blamed for Spread of Hiv in Africa HIV infection in Africa has spread more through medical practices, such as injections, than it has through unsafe sex,... |
| Prescription for World's Poorest Stays Unwritten It took just two hours yesterday for representatives from 145 countries to abandon their latest attempt to decide how and... |
Malawi minister breaches deadly wall of silence surrounding Aids The true state of the HIV/Aids crisis in sub-Saharan Africa was laid bare yesterday by a Malawian government minister, who... |
| Cancer risk linked to tastebuds Supertasters - people with an unusually large number of tastebuds in the mouth - tend to avoid sweet, high-fat foods. But... |
Bollywood Blamed for Teenage Smoking India's lavish and gushingly romantic Bollywood movies may be the world's most watched but they are also, it now appears,... |
| Mystery Bug Causes Panic Across China War fears fuel stockpiling frenzy after virus kills five. The friendly staff at the Hualian supermarket in a quiet... |
China in a Panic Over Mystery Bug The Chinese authorities are struggling to quell alarm in southern China over a health scare which has led to panic-buying... |
| Uganda starts human trials of Aids vaccine Trials of a potential Aids vaccine for Africa have begun with human volunteers in Uganda, one of the worst hit countries on... |
Hospitals Aren't Shops, and Patients Aren't Customers In the health service, as in education, internal markets lower standards. Competition is a good thing. It drives the mighty... |
| Navy sonar scans to treat the obese Mine-detecting equipment under development for the Royal Navy is being adapted to help NHS specialists improve ultrasound... |
Swiss to stop entry of 'mercy death' Britons At least a dozen terminally ill British patients are expected to fly to a controversial clinic in Zurich in the coming... |
| US regulators warn on Glaxo asthma drug US drugs industry regulators yesterday said they would slap warning labels on one of GlaxoSmithKline's most established... |
Fat Attack on Big Mac Thrown Out of Court McDonald's scored a landmark victory when a US judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the fast food chain for... |
| Terminally Ill Briton Helped to Die in Zurich A pensioner paralysed by motor neurone disease ended his life yesterday with a lethal drink of barbiturates. Reginald Crew,... |
Fruit and veg campaign fails to make an impact People from the most deprived areas of the UK are far less likely to eat the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables... |
| It's green, prickly and sour, but this plant could cure obesity and save an ancient way of life Bushmen of the Kalahari stand to benefit from development of hoodia, which curbs appetite. Hunting with bows and poisoned... |
Here's a healthy little French white wine Throwing out a timely straw to drinkers drowning in a sea of festive booze, French researchers say they have devised a... |
| Gotta run There was a moment when a rolled-up blue rubber mat was the must-have accessory for every health-freak celebrity; when... |
As Long As Drugs Are Illegal the Problem Won't Go Away Addicts should be given drugs free so they don't have to mug and burgle. Ann air of wild unreality permeates most drug... |
| Cost-price Drugs Plan for Poor Countries US may block Short's scheme to beat killer diseases. Plans for a two-tier system for drug pricing, which will supply cheap... |
HIV infection - the new killing grounds Potential scale of epidemic very alarming. Even with less than 1% infected, India recorded 3.97 million living with HIV in... |
| Aids is Surging in Asia, Warns Un There will be an "explosive" spread of Aids into new areas unless more resources are freed to fight the growing... |
Health: Leisure Sickness ... but never when you're at work? If so, you could be a victim of 'leisure sickness'. Sally Weale investigates. |
| 'Super-sized' teenagers sue McDonald's Gregory Rhymes, 15, has eaten at McDonald's almost every day since the age of six. His Macaholic addiction has taken his... |
Herbal high turns to Pacific downer Kava used to be a popular alternative remedy to combat anxiety and depression, on sale in health food shops and pharmacies... |
| Patients Recalled After Aids Death A private health clinic near Paris has written to more than 900 of its past patients offering them Aids tests, after it... |
Profiteers Resell Africa's Cheap Aids Drugs Aids drugs which were intended to save the lives of thousands of impoverished Africans have been intercepted, flown back to... |
| Aids Rife in Ex-soviet States HIV/Aids is spreading faster in the countries of the former Soviet Union than anywhere else on earth, and precious time in... |
Obesity & Exercise: Confessions of a Fitness Fanatic Eating less and exercising are simple cures for obesity but an addiction to activity can be just as unhealthy. Fat is the... |
| Dutch Nurse 'killed 13 By Lethal Injection' A Dutch nurse accused of carrying out a killing spree on patients in her care went on trial yesterday for the murder of 13... |
Marijuana for Aids Patients Marijuana is to be distributed to cancer and Aids patients this morning in Santa Cruz, California, in the latest battle of... |
| Health supplements: R.I.P. Millions of Britons take herbal vitamin and mineral supplements, either as a preventative measure or to treat specific... |
Ecstasy begets empathy Psychologist and drug researcher Dr. Charles Grob sees value in MDMA -- when it's taken in therapy, not at a rave. |
| MMR row 'is hindering autism research' The controversy over a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children is hampering the search for a cure, a... |
'It's fat, fat and more fat' Sharon Krum on the 19-stone American man who is taking four fast-food chains to court for making him obese. |
| Praise the lard For years we've been warned off red meat and animal fats. But we're no sooner out of the frying pan and into the fibre than... |
Minister of sponsored walks The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is facing a medical crisis - but its health minister has a plan. He wants to set up a... |
| Fatal fever that lurks in the swamps Scientists confirm epidemic but try to quell alarm after seven deaths. Americans have suddenly turned their attention away... |
Second legionnaire's victim dies in Cumbria A second victim of the legionnaire's disease outbreak in Cumbria died last night, health officials confirmed today. A... |
| Monthly Viagra Ration Perks Up Eurocrats To the undoubted horror and bemusement of Eurosceptics, the officials in Brussels everyone loves to hate have just been... |
No more fillings? It's one of life's horrors. But a controversial new treatment could soon make the dentist's drill a thing of the past. Leo... |
| 'Magic' pill that may tame the killer cells The final part of a three day series tells how new a drug offers patients hope of managing their disease. In the first... |
World leader or third world straggler? The second of a three-day series shows that Britain's battle against the killer disease is better than sometimes painted. |
| High hopes and painful progress The battle against cancer has been medicine's great campaign of the last 100 years. But why, when there have been so many... |
For better or for worse One in 13 people in Britain is dependent on drink - and an addict also binds families and friends in the grip of misery and... |
| Global warning on legionnaires' Thousands of people have been exposed to the deadly legionnaires' bacteria that have already claimed the life of one man in... |
Bug thrives in warm stagnant water Legionnaire's disease is a bacterial disease which may cause pneumonia. It gets its name from an outbreak at a state... |
| Man dies in legionnaire's outbreak Twenty hit by disease in town as hunt begins for cause. One man has died and at least 100 people are believed to have been... |
Tests reveal CJD blood risk Scientists say there is "an appreciable risk" of people catching the human form of BSE through blood transfusions... |
| Lurking in your litter: horror movie warns of Britain's rising tide of rats Campaigners target fast food consumers with shock message. The fast food-eating litter louts blamed for helping to send... |
Japanese Slimmers Pay High Price for Obsession Five deaths are linked to imported diet pills in a country fixated with weight loss. |
| First, you market the disease... then you push the pills to treat it Brendan I Koerner on the ugly truth about doctors, PR firms and drug companies. Word of the hidden epidemic began spreading... |
Cheers - now they say wine isn't good for you It is one of the comforts of the drinking classes. Wine is good for you. A few tipples every day will guard against heart... |
| Irritable male syndrome Flagging men can now boost their testosterone levels. Robin McKie asks whether it's worth the risk. Jim Harris was only 42... |
'It's better to be thin and dead than fat and living' Lucy Atkins exposes the websites that celebrate anorexia and bulimia. How about this for a weight-loss tip: "Eat six... |
| Report to criticise government's foot and mouth response Inquiry to call for army to be enlisted immediately to combat any new outbreak of foot and mouth. |
Charles follows Diana into Aids work Prince Charles is to become actively involved with Britain's largest Aids charity in a move that mirrors the work of his... |
| Cancer link to fall in breast feeding The cultural shift within the UK and other prosperous countries in modern times, which has led to women having few children... |
UK project to tackle water-borne parasite which threatens 600 million Schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia and once known as the disease of the pharaohs because traces have been found in... |
| 'It's very hard: this illness is cruel' One man who is buying time. James Locke is certain that he would be dead by now, were it not for medical science. For 18... |
Vaccine hope within five years Maker upbeat but power of drug in doubt. The first vaccine against Aids could be on the market within five years, it was... |
| Botswana battles against 'extinction' As delegates meet in Spain, the world's worst-hit country tries a new initiative against the epidemic. If there is anywhere... |
US may vaccinate 500,000 health workers against smallpox Half a million or more Americans may soon be given smallpox injections as part of the government's attempts to neutralise... |
| Drug promises heart disease revolution Heart attacks and strokes could be cut by at least a third by tripling the number of patients on cholesterol-lowering drugs... |
Make the Dead Pay Old people (and their middle-aged kids) don't want to sell their homes to pay for care. Here's the alternative. Sometimes... |
| Mad, bad and dangerous law The mental health bill may be a crowd-pleaser, but it will not help as much as well-directed funding. One night, travelling... |
Polio is eradicated from Europe Now UN health body aims for world free of killer virus by 2005. Polio, which paralysed and killed thousands of small... |
| Good news on a bad day for one victim There are figures and claims: and there are human dimensions. Just as the World Health Organisation was getting its final... |
Workers at microwave popcorn factory may need lung transplants, lawyers say A new and horrible industrial disease has emerged to join the great scourges of a supposedly forgotten past: popcorn... |
| Junk Food Firms Fear Fat Litigants A $50m class-action lawsuit launched against a US food manufacturer has created concerns in the food and restaurant... |
Post-menopause women 'happier' Most women say their lives improve after the onset of the menopause, according to research published today showing the... |
| Older but not wiser Time to face the facts on ageing. A dramatic rise in life expectancy can hardly be described as the worst challenge that a... |
Health crisis looms as life expectancy soars Western governments are drastically underestimating how long their citizens are likely to live, an oversight which... |
| Land of the fat Obesity kills 300,000 people a year in America. Matthew Engel on a country that is in danger of busting the scales. |
Biodiversity deal aims to stop drug companies plundering plants A worldwide plan to prevent drug and biotechnology companies plundering medicinal plant resources from the developing world... |
| Hospital dramas Who said these wise words in the House of Commons? "In this spirit of great caring, dredging up personal cases of... |
Patients get impatient These are difficult days for doctors. Harold Shipman was recognised as an aberration, but almost every week since his... |
| The psychobabble of self-esteem Occasionally a new piece of research demolishes a myth with one fell blow. It does not happen often (social research tends... | |