17/Oct/18
The health benefits of exercise are constantly drummed into us.
Health News
17/Oct/18
The age at which boys begin puberty is linked to when their mothers started having periods, a study suggests.
17/Oct/18
GPs in England are being given permission to prescribe patients "social" activities, such as dance classes, to tackle loneliness.
17/Oct/18
Parents should immediately stop using three market-leading child stair gates, a consumer group has said after carrying out its own safety tests.
16/Oct/18
Does giving up booze for a month make any difference to our health?
15/Oct/18
Chioma Udeogu hopes one day she will be able to visit her baby girl's grave thousands of miles away from her home in Nigeria.
15/Oct/18
15/Oct/18
Children and young people up to 18 should have their weight and body mass index (BMI) recorded every year, says a report by child health experts.
15/Oct/18
A judge in Texas has denied a further restraining order to keep a nine-year-old girl, said by doctors to be brain dead, on life support.
14/Oct/18
If the world wants to limit climate change, water scarcity and pollution, then we all need to embrace "flexitarian" diets, say scientists.
14/Oct/18
New research suggests that standing desks, which allow employees to alter their position during the day, may boost performance at work.
11/Oct/18
"You're not always in control of what your body is doing. With or without your input."
11/Oct/18
The Australian government has issued a national apology to women affected by a vaginal mesh scandal, acknowledging decades of "agony and pain".
10/Oct/18
A firm has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste from hospitals was allowed to pile up at its sites.
10/Oct/18
Doctors have been given permission to give a British man with CJD a pioneering treatment, in a world first.
10/Oct/18
Young people are turning their backs on alcohol, a new study has suggested.
10/Oct/18
A minister for suicide prevention has been appointed in England by the prime minister as the government hosts the first ever global mental health summit.
09/Oct/18
It's something many people have experienced at least once in their lives - a night of heavy drinking followed by a day of missing memories. A blackout.
09/Oct/18
Post-traumatic stress disorder of serving Army personnel and military veterans has increased in the last 10 years, a new study suggests.
09/Oct/18
Hospitals are seeing and treating more men with prostate cancer, partly thanks to celebrities raising awareness of the disease by speaking out about their own experiences, says the head of the NHS.
