Handwashing: Why are the British so bad at washing their hands?
By Denise WintermanBBC News MagazineFaecal matter can be found on just over a quarter of our hands, new research suggests. In some cases the amount of ...Read more
By Denise WintermanBBC News MagazineFaecal matter can be found on just over a quarter of our hands, new research suggests. In some cases the amount of ...Read more
A painkiller as powerful as morphine, but without most of the side-effects, has been found in the deadly venom of the black mamba, say French scientis ...Read more
(Reuters) - Alere Inc said it reached an agreement with U.S. health regulators on product specifications related to the manufacture of its diagnostic ...Read more
Scientists say they can find no convincing evidence to show that taking vitamin D supplements will fend off a cold.A New Zealand team did the "gold st ...Read more
(Reuters Health) - For people conscious about their heart health, a new study suggests it may be best to eat fish instead of taking individual omega-3 ...Read more
(Reuters) - Sanofi's experimental pill to treat Gaucher disease, a rare inherited condition, has met its main goal in a late-stage trial, the French d ...Read more
(Reuters Health) - A study of nearly 190,000 young women injected with Merck & Co's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil found no new safety concerns ...Read more
Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women across the UK are to be offered a whooping cough vaccine to protect babies from an escalating outbreak of the ...Read more
A new way to screen poor women for cervical cancer was introduced this month in El Salvador, using a test that was originally developed in China.Cervi ...Read more
More dentists need to be checking their patients for mouth cancer, say experts.Cancer Research UK says oral cancer rates are going up and some dentist ...Read more