Depression is the number one mental problem in western industrialised nations, and it is no respecter of status or income.
A High Court judge has ruled that it is in the best interests of a woman who suffers from "extremely severe" anorexia to be fed against her wishes. ...
Almost 750 women are to have faulty breast implants removed on the NHS, figures show. Around 47,000 British women are believed to have been given t...
UPDATE: Argyll Council have lifted the ban on Martha Payne taking photographs of her school lunch for her NeverSeconds blog. A nine-year-old girl w...
While it's obvious that too much sugar and high fructose corn syrup is bad for us, it looks very much like sugar and HFC would be having little effect if we weren't being driven by dieting to eat more of them.
The thought of an intelligent, sentient Moon Bear being locked in a cage no bigger than itself for 20 years with a dirty, metal catheter crudely inserted in to the gall bladder while bile is endlessly and painfully extracted sounds like a torturous experience beyond the capabilities of any living being. But it happens.
A locked-in syndrome patient seeking permission for a doctor to end his life in the High Court has been captured on film tweeting for the first time. ...
Across Europe, 500 million working days are lost each year as a result of chronic pain. The economic effect is equivalent to paying half the working population of Portugal to sit at home doing nothing, while asking the rest to make up the difference via impossibly inflated sales targets.
What do women want? Some might say it's a question that has perplexed men for millennia! But in the box office hit of the same name, Mel Gibson's sc...
If you have ever suffered from frozen shoulder or know someone who has the condition, you will know how miserable life can be when you can't do simple tasks due to pain.
I'm not going to talk to you about prostate cancer, testicular cancer or erectile problems, which you can't fail to miss in the form of awareness campaigns, TV adverts and your latest issue of FHM. Instead, I want to focus on an equally devastating, less publicised, more taboo topic - mental health.
Two out of five small business owners never talk to their staff about their physical or mental health, despite the cost of stress in the workplace, ac...
Ex-England footballer Michael Gray is to undergo the first UK hair transplant of its kind to be streamed live on the internet. Gray, known as Micky...
Last week we were all shocked by the heartbreaking photos of Hope the dog who was found emaciated and half the weight she should have been. She was described by a vet as the thinnest dog she'd seen alive.
If you've ever driven around a busy city looking for a parking space, you know how frustrating it can be. But what if you could turn parking into ...
Further deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease cannot be ruled out, doctors warned, as people from further afield fell ill. There are 24 ...
A Chinese schoolgirl who is partially covered in black fur has been adopted after she was abandoned by her birth family. Liu Jiangli, now six, was...
Depression woke me up yesterday morning. Not mine, but someone on the Today programme as my alarm went off telling me exercise doesn't help to make people with the illness feel better. I started running 'properly' (semi-regularly, really) because of depression, and it's still a big reason I go.
Animal research is a tough topic to discuss, a task made harder by breathless but groundless anti-vivisection narratives that mislead the public over various aspects of the issue.
A student who was hours from death when she was diagnosed with a huge brain tumour has stunned doctors by making an incredible recovery. Emma Bass...
The number of people who have contracted Legionnaires' disease is expected to continue rising until the weekend following a deadly outbreak in Edinbur...
With an alarming 26% of British citizens male and female classified as obese according to a 2012 NHS report, one would think this summer of sport would be a welcome one. However with such focus on extreme exercise comes the risk of cardiac arrest.
A highly lucrative underground trade in shellfish is putting the health of consumers at risk with tonnes of potentially contaminated seafood feared to be entering the food chain. That's the worrying finding of a joint investigation by The Ecologist magazine and The Independent newspaper.
The number of patients facing crippling waiting times in England's accident and emergency units has reached an eight-year peak, according to a new a s...
More than half the British public suffers from a negative body image, an inquiry by MPs has heard. The problem is so acute that girls as young as f...
