Medicine News Stories

Yoga practitioners preach the power of breath control; meditators know it works, and people with panic attacks are told...

A man paralysed from the neck down has been able to drink a coffee and feed himself for the first time in 8 years...

The venom of one of the world's most dangerous spiders can powerfully protect brain cells following a stroke, a...

A drug that reverses the ageing process and makes balding mice hairy again, restores kidney function and enables the...

From the noses of West Africans, South Asians, East Asians, and Northern Europeans, new research has found populations...

A biochemical test for autism has been developed by scientists in the US.

A new way to tackle brain tumours has been tested successfully in mice by researchers in the US.

Abnormalities of specific neural circuits relates to lack of flexibility in OCD, new research suggests

How tooth calculi are helping archaeologists to unpick what our ancestors were eating...

Scientists have come up with a potential new way to help patients affected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Researchers have found that the brain activity in someone listening to a story bears similarity to the person telling...

A number of studies have shown that individuals who complain of irritable bowel (IBS) symptoms also have changes to the...

Many of us are probably all too familiar with the looming dread that comes with the morning after a night of drinking....

Bumblebees have been trained to roll a ball into a “goal” in reward for sugar-water. They were able to pick up the...

Promoting social causes online can mobilise millions and raise huge sums of money. But it only leads to long term...

Scientists have discovered that the sea may have its own pollution solution in the shape of seagrasses, which come with...

More than 150 years ago the Irish-born physician Robert Todd penned the first description of the phenomenon now known...

For centuries, people have wondered what happens to us after we die. While the question will likely remain one of the...

A decade ago e-cigarettes were a pipe-dream. Now they're mainstream, and usage is rising fast. But are they safer...

A tiny sensor capable of transmitting information from inside the body and powered by stomach acid has been unveiled by...

Stem cells made from adult skin and programmed to hunt down tumours have been developed by scientists in the US.

A computer programme, designed to teach itself, can spot skin cancers as successfully as a panel of trained skin...

A replacement pancreas for a mouse has been successfully grown in an animal of a different species, Japanese scientists...

Researchers have resorted to robotics to help the 40 million people affected worldwide by heart failure.