health

A prescription drug linked to 33 deaths in 2017 in Northern Ireland will now be treated as a class C drug.

An 18-year-old who complained of seizures in the emergency room of an Indian hospital turned out to have parasites in his brain, according to a case study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Giving a baby a new food to try is fun, and it should be. The only concerns parents should have: finding their phones fast enough to document the funny faces and cleaning up the mess that might follow. Yet in recent years, scientific evidence has accumulated quickly on what foods to introduce when and how to best prevent allergies -- leaving parents to keep track of it all.

It's been debated for years: Are eggs good or bad for you? People who eat an added three or four eggs a week or 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol per day, have a higher risk of both heart disease and early death compared with those who eat fewer eggs, new research finds.

If you're a healthy older adult looking for ways to reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, don't turn to that age-old standby: daily low-dose aspirin. It's no longer recommended as a preventative for older adults who don't have a high risk or existing heart disease, according toguidelines announced Sunday by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.

New guidelines on diagnosing high blood pressure could mean thousands more people benefiting from treatment in England and Wales.

A UK patient's HIV has become "undetectable" following a stem cell transplant - in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in Nature.

How would you define a good lunch? Some of us might say a healthy kale salad, others a delicious burrito, while some may point to the locally raised beef in their burger. But in Martha Sif Karrebaek’s experience, such a question crystallises the way that language and culture add layers of meaning to what’s on the plate. It’s not just what food we eat that matters, but how we talk about it.

One-in-five adults and 80 per cent of adolescents worldwide are not getting enough exercise, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which on Monday launched a new action plan to tackle the situation and promote good health.

Few children's multivitamins give the recommended daily vitamin D dose, a study suggests.