Health

A new superbug from India thought to be resistant to nearly every known antibiotic poses a global threat, scientists warned – Read More...

A slowdown in research aimed at development of new and more effective antibiotics poses the threat of a return to – Read More...

Malaysia is considering releasing genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, in a landmark field trial that has come – Read More...

The UN has said an insecticide used in farming and to treat woodworm, Lindane, is among nine highly toxic chemicals – Read More...

Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables may decrease the risk of some kinds    of lung cancer for smokers, according – Read More...

An experimental the-rapy that targets the protein that feeds certain types of advanced melanomas has successfully shrunk tumours in up – Read More...

A protein that eliminates iron from cells could be used to slow the growth of cancerous tumours, to treat breast – Read More...

People with insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes are at higher risk of developing plaques associated with Alzheimer’s, Japanese researchers say – Read More...

Fast food restaurants could hand out free cholesterol-busting statin drugs with their burgers and fries so customers can offset the – Read More...

India’s health authorities have angrily accused British researchers and the medical journal The Lancet that published their work of scaremongering – Read More...