The recent Health and Retirement Study, from the National Institute of Aging and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, concluded that individuals with mentally demanding jobs have a better chance of maintaining higher cognitive function and offsetting dementia after they retire.
HIV self-testing kits could soon be for sale in the UK. A change in UK law means that from Sunday it will be legal to sell the home testing kits.
NHS family doctors may be referring gay people for controversial treatments designed to change their sexuality, a minister said last night.
Tens of thousands of elderly patients are suffering in silence because they do not want to make a fuss, according to Englands health watchdog.
People with a severe alcohol-related liver disease will be eligible for liver transplants for the first time in the UK under a pilot scheme.
The number of sleep deprived Brits has risen by 50 per cent in a year as people increasingly use smartphones and computers before bed.
The study on mice by the University of Southampton suggests that catching infections can cause brain inflammation which drives the disease and worsens it.
A single, clear and consistent legal framework is needed to enable the healthcare regulators to uphold their duty to protect public safety an official report has claimed.
Oli Cooney was warned at 18 to stop working out after his heart was damaged by muscle-boosting drugs.
A list of bodies that have been allowed to access NHS patient information has been released.
