HEALTH & MEDICINE

Forty-year-old Amanda Davey, from Southport ran and fell down, nearly breaking her neck, after participating in an ice bucket challenge.

Sleeping on animal skin or animal fur, especially in the first three months of a baby’s life, reduces the risk of developing asthma and allergies, reveals a study.

Electronic (E) cigarettes can save thousands of life if all smokers switch to e-cigarettes instead of normal tobacco cigarettes, say researchers from the University College London (UCL).

Research shows that first impressions can help you judge a person's character.

Research shows that "seven distinct muscle groups" join hands to create your angry look.

A study by the Faculty of Medicine at the Umea University in Sweden has found that neurons in the skin have the ability to think.

After Angelina Jolie revealed that she had a preventative double mastectomy done on her since she was at a higher genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancer, many women are considering genetic testing to see if they carried genes that put them at a higher risk of acquiring breast and ovarian cancer.

A recent study showed that low-carb diets are healthier.

The 79-year-old Mary Berry, who is a judge on the popular TV show The Great British Bake Off, in an interview with Radio Times, said that she would not like to live beyond 90 years of age.

Australia saw a jump on cigarette taxes by 13.7 per cent on Monday, thereby pushing the rates to $1 per cigarette.

Microbes can mark you out, intrude into your health domain, and leave traces of your identity everywhere.

The purity of crystal methamphetamine, also called ice, had gone up 20 per cent the past four years in Australia, according to Sam Biondo, head of the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association.

The advantage of eating healthy food is enormous, apart from the fact that you will be able to get all the extra pounds off your body.

Listening to one’s favourite music and songs can make you nostalgic and take you down the memory lane.

Health workers, including alcohol treatment providers, expressed concern that the prioritisation given to alcohol harm might not trickle to them especially on additional funding.

The wonder drug shows some indication to fight the viral outbreak.

A British couple named Brett and Nagmeh King were arrested in Malaga, Spain, after they took their five-year-old son with cancer, Ashya King, from a hospital in Britain without doctors' consent to seek advanced medical treatment.

Male addicts who were treated with methadone were found to have reduced levels of testosterone, according to a new study conducted by McMaster University in Canada, Science Daily News reported.

Normally, mashing a woman's breast would get the masher a sexual assault charge, or at the very least, a slap on the face courtesy of the owner of the mammary glands.

Dr Jauhar's book showing that the American medical profession is ill with greed has created shock waves.

Twenty-year-old Isabelle Roberts from Tipton, West Midlands, was rushed to the Russells Hall Hospital after dislocating her jaw when she screamed during the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday evening. The video showing her failed ice bucket challenge has gone viral and has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook.

Bad memories can be overwritten by manipulating the brain cells, thereby reversing the emotions attached to a memory.

Anita Wainwright, a mother of four from Birmingham, suffers from a rare medical condition, cataplexy, which causes her to have seizure and collapse every time she has heightened emotions like surprise, anger, sorrow, joy and orgasm during sexual intercourse.

Scarlett-Rose Davis, a 3-year-old toddler from Birmingham, who became a sensation after using the F-word during an ice bucket challenge, has apologised and said that she won't use such bad words again.

A three-man mobile laboratory team who were following findings contracted the deadly Ebola virus.

Research shows that bad recall can be banished with some smart string-pulling.

Excess intake of salt or sodium is extremely harmful to health and can cause stomach cancer, strokes, heart ailments, high blood pressure and gastric ulcers among many other health related problems.

Autistic children have extra synapses in their brain and using a specific drug restores synaptic pruning and in turn might be able to reverses autistic-like-behavior in human beings as reported by the U.S. neuroscientists in the Neuron journal.

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