The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently concluded a study across 10 European countries, with 450,000 participants over an average period of 16 years…

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC – has released a special report on agriculture and human diet in the context of global…

Most cells in the body are pre-programmed to have a specific function and can’t be trained to do anything else. However, our bodies produce a…

A surprising 2.4% of all primary care consultations in the UK are to do with shoulder pain.  There is very strong evidence to suggest that…

Genetic testing to discover increased probability of certain serious illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer’s, has been available privately for some time….

The expression ‘you are what you eat’ has become more fine-tuned in recent years. These days, it’s more about ‘you are what lives on what…

Coffee will certainly stop you from sleeping but apparently even drinking up to 25 cups per day does not damage the heart. Earlier research had…

The NHS has recently announced that it plans to spend £50m on robotic surgical equipment, reports the New Scientist. So why is the NHS so…

Our great ape relatives are very sedentary, resting and sleeping for 18 hours a day, saving their calories for survival and reproduction. But homo sapiens…