Health

Post date: 11/20/2018 - 23:16

A new discovery could explain why obese people are more likely to develop cancer, scientists say.

A type of cell the body uses to destroy cancerous tissue...

Huge malnutrition toll on yemen children

Post date: 11/20/2018 - 23:13

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.

The number...

Llama blood clue to beating all flu

Post date: 11/02/2018 - 08:55

Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment. Llamas have been used to produce a new...

Sniffer dogs can identify malaria

Post date: 11/02/2018 - 08:31

Scientists in the UK and The Gambia say they have the first evidence that dogs can sniff out malaria. They have trained dogs to...

Surgery students 'losing dexterity to sew

Post date: 11/02/2018 - 08:26

A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for...

New 'Trojan horse' antibiotic promising

Post date: 10/26/2018 - 00:19

Scientists say they have engineered a new antibiotic that appears promising in early clinical trials. The...

Cancer chemo treatment 'unbearable

Post date: 10/18/2018 - 21:06

Bill Turnbull has described dealing with cancer every day as "relentlessly boring" and admitted he asked doctors to stop his "unbearable" chemotherapy.

Australia scraps tampon tax

Post date: 10/08/2018 - 02:12

Australia will remove a controversial tax on female sanitary products following years of campaigning by women's groups....

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