Health & Medicine
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
28 Oct 2017
Dogs may protect against childhood eczema and asthma
27 Oct 2017
Two studies show babies born in a home with a dog during pregnancy protects them from allergic eczema, and dogs may provide a protective effect against asthma, even in children allergic to dogs
Antibiotics from a 'molecular pencil sharpener'
24 Oct 2017
US FDA approves second gene therapy for cancer
23 Oct 2017
How obesity promotes breast cancer
21 Oct 2017
The end of pneumonia? New vaccine offers hope
21 Oct 2017
Beer enhances ability to speak foreign language: study
21 Oct 2017
Though it is well known that alcohol impairs cognitive, motor functions and mental functions, a study at Maastricht University has found that drinking a pint of beer may boost foreign language skills
E-cigarettes may trigger unique and potentially damaging immune responses
20 Oct 2017
E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease
10-fold increase in obesity in four decades: WHO, Imperial study
13 Oct 2017
If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, according to a new study led by Imperial College London and WHO
World's 'better' countries have higher rates of cancer
12 Oct 2017
The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse off" countries, according to new research