LONDON: America may be one of the richest countries in the world, but its people are less healthy and more likely to die early from disease or accidents than those in any other affluent country, a damning official US report has found.
Published12 Jan, 201302:13am
Life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, by 11 years for men and 12 years for women over the last four decades, but we are paying the price in more mental and physical health problems,
Published15 Dec, 201203:25am
A GIRL born today in the UK can expect to live nearly to the age of 82 on average, while her brother will live to 78. They would have a longer life in Andorra (85 and 79 respectively), but are marginally better
Published15 Dec, 201202:01am
LONDON: More than one million people in Britain may be suffering from constant, crippling headaches because they are taking too many painkillers, experts say. The pills people take to relieve headaches and
Published21 Sep, 201203:46am
LONDON: Adolescents who are regular users of cannabis are at risk of permanent damage to their intelligence, attention span and memory, according to the results of research covering nearly four decades
Published29 Aug, 201201:12am
IN the 1980s and 1990s they were told they were going to die young, so they gave up their jobs and cashed in the pensions they wouldn’t need, buried their friends and tried to make the most of their last months on Earth.
Published30 Jul, 201212:00am
LONDON: Scientists have successfully tested a new tuberculosis treatment that has the potential to check an epidemic of a deadly, drug-resistant strain of the disease that has been threatening to sweep the globe.
Published24 Jul, 201211:13pm
EVER SINCE the first ancient Greek chipped away at a lump of stone to give it the smooth, aerodynamic properties of a discus, sportsmen and engineers have been looking at ways to enhance performance — while
Published05 Jul, 201203:01am
LONDON: Fifty years after its groundbreaking report in which doctors first tried to talk directly to the public about the catastrophic dangers of smoking, the UK`s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) warns on Tuesday that the death toll from cigarettes will
Published06 Mar, 201209:51pm
DOCTORS are calling for a rethink of the use of sleeping pills after a large study showed that the drugs carry a substantially increased risk of death for those who are prescribed them
Published29 Feb, 201207:10am
DECADES of assumptions about the lethality of malaria have been overturned by a paper from an academic institute in Seattle which says the disease kills twice as many as everybody thought.
Published03 Feb, 201210:00pm
