10/May/18
On Wednesday, 104-year-old scientist David Goodall bid farewell to his home in Australia to fly across the world to end his life.
Health News
10/May/18
A little-known scientific process is being hailed as the new way to lose weight, look younger and prolong life.
09/May/18
You've been using our fat calculator in your droves, working out your BMI (body mass index) and comparing the result with people in your age group and your part of the UK.
09/May/18
Nigeria's authorities have shut down three leading drugs companies after a BBC investigation into addiction to cough syrup containing codeine.
08/May/18
Children as young as 11 are being treated for abusing the anxiety drug Xanax, the BBC has found.
08/May/18
The American author Mark Twain is often, possibly apocryphally, quoted as saying that quitting smoking was easy - he'd done it 100 times.
08/May/18
Women who regularly eat fast food and not enough fruit are more likely to struggle to conceive, a study suggests.
07/May/18
This year's London Marathon is likely to be the hottest yet, so how do you run a marathon in the heat?
07/May/18
Scientists have developed a blood test for peanut allergies that they say is less risky and more cost-efficient than other tests.
07/May/18
Bath oils used to help treat eczema in children offer no meaningful benefit as part of their care, a trial has found.
07/May/18
Dutch scientists have built "synthetic" embryos in their laboratory using mouse cells other than sperm and eggs.
05/May/18
A terminally ill man who is challenging the law on assisted suicide has asked judges to acknowledge his "basic right to die" and to envisage themselves in his position.
04/May/18
Men are less than half as likely as women to ask for help when they are diagnosed with cancer, according to the charity Macmillan. Craig Toley was 29 when he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer but didn't talk about it until after he'd fallen into a deep depression.
04/May/18
A High Court judge is starting work this week as chairman of a public inquiry into the biggest treatment scandal in NHS history. Tens of thousands want answers after being infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood products.
04/May/18
A diet high in carbs could bring on an earlier menopause, a study suggests.
02/May/18
If anything makes us human it's our minds, thoughts and emotions.
02/May/18
Jamie Oliver has told a select committee that more taxation is not the way to curb the UK's obesity epidemic.
02/May/18
People might think battling obesity is down to sheer willpower, but medical research says otherwise. Here are five potentially surprising factors that can affect your weight, as unearthed by The Truth About Obesity .
