Health
Germany urged by Council of Europe to end sex offenders surgical castration
Council of Europe has urged Germany to end the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders. The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee said such voluntary treatment,...
Zachery Jack Avery, 5-year-old boy living as a girl with his parents and NHS support
Five-year-old Zachery Jack Avery’s wardrobe contains a purple tutu, a silky mauve blouse and a floral patterned skirt. Zachery Jack Avery is one of the...
MRK003, a promising trial drug against pancreatic cancer
British scientists at University of Cambridge say they may have found a more efficient treatment of pancreatic cancer after promising early trial results of...
Losing weight by cutting calories is twice as hard as people believe
Losing weight just got twice as hard because of a new way of calculating the effects of dieting. Conventional guidelines fail to take into account...
Zelboraf for metastatic melanoma was approved by the European Commission
Zelboraf (vemurafenib) has received approval from the European Commission to be used as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with BRAFV600 mutation-positive inoperable...
Ryan Marquiss, the world’s first child to survive being born with heart outside his body
Ryan Marquiss is the first child in the world to survive being born with his heart outside of his body. Having the heart outside the...
Fasting on and off can make you live longer
US scientists found that starvation on alternate days can make people live longer by boosting brain power and shedding weight. The research team said that...
Diabetes may begin in the bowel, new study suggests
A new study, published this week in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, indicates that bowel may play an important role in the development...
Nick Vujicic, a limbless motivational speaker, spent his honeymoon in Hawaii
Nick Vujicic, a limbless motivational speaker from California, and his new wife spent their honeymoon on a beach in Hawaii. Nick Vujicic, 29, was born...
Drinking three cups of black tea a day may protect against heart attacks and diabetes
British researchers claim that drinking just three cups of tea a day may protect against heart attacks and type 2 diabetes. A review shows regular...
WHO experts delay the decision on publishing H5N1 bird flu virus full work
World Health Organization experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be released. It had been looking...
The story of Apalachia’s “Blue Family” whose members were born with a rare skin discoloration
The extraordinary story of Appalachia's “Blue Family” began back to the early 1800’s, when an isolated family from eastern Kentucky - who can trace their...
Slow walking speed may predict dementia
US researchers found that the speed of someone’s walking may predict the likelihood of developing dementia later in life. The scientists also told a conference...
School rejected a preschooler’s homemade turkey sandwich in favour of cafeteria chicken nuggets
A preschool girl from North Carolina was told her homemade meal consisting of turkey and cheese sandwich wasn't healthy enough - so West Hoke...
Man suffered cardiac arrest while eating Triple Bypass Burger at Heart Attack Grill
A customer of Heart Attack Grill suffered a cardiac arrest in the chain's Las Vegas branch on last Saturday. An onlooker captured video of paramedics wheeling...
A good bacterium can be used to beat sleeping sickness, say scientists
Belgian researchers have found a way to beat sleeping sickness using a bacterium against the tsetse fly host that spreads the disease to humans. In...
Cold bath can relieve muscular pains, but it is unclear whether is safe, say experts
Experts found that taking a cold bath after exercise can relieve muscular pains but it is unclear whether this is safe. Plunging into cold water...
Heart attack damage healed using stem cells
Experts at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in US say that damage caused by a heart attack has been healed using stem cells gathered from...
Wewelsfleth, the German village where almost every household has a resident suffering from cancer
German health experts have been left baffled by a small village in their country where cancer has hit almost every household. Wewelsfleth, the German village which has...
Immune cells can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus, say scientists
An international research team has shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building...
British transgender man became first male mum in UK
A British man has become the first male mum in UK despite being born a woman and undergoing a sex change. The man, who is...
Brain is responsible for weight gain and obesity, say scientists
Scientists from Finland have located a certain area of the brain that could be responsible for weight gain and obesity. The central nervous system helps...
Cannabis consumers are twice as likely to cause a car crash
A Canadian study found that drivers who use cannabis within three hours of driving are twice as likely to cause a collision as those...
Alzheimer’s brain destructive plaques have been cleared in mice tests
US scientists have discovered how to rapidly clear the destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients while they were testing a cancer...
Aspirin is not the real cause of stomach bleeding, that’s due to helicobacter pylori, say scientists
Scientists have identified helicobacter pylori bacterium as being the real cause of stomach bleeding linked to aspirin, which makes thousands of patients to be...
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