Researchers say they have 'effectively cured' 21 children of the dangerous condition.

Researchers found that middle aged and elderly people need as much shut-eye as younger people if they want to keep a clear head the next day.

Every year, around 180,000 hiatus hernia repair operations are carried out in Britain. Lesley Mills, 65, a housewife from Wolverhampton, underwent surgery using an implant made from pig bowel, as she tells CAROL DAVIS.

Britain faces an infertility time bomb because a generation of IVF babies may have inherited their parents' inability to conceive, a leading doctor has warned.

In our health quiz this week, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency author Alexander McCall Smith, 61, talks about a period of depression, living forever and dieting on a book tour...

tastelifesalted added an entry about lose weight : Okay, so 22 days in and weight loss to date is 7lbs. Which actually sounds pretty damn good now that I really think about it. I have been discouraged because of two weeks of 1lb weight loss but 7 total and sticking? That’s good! 23% of Goal! 12 and a bit weeks to lose 23 lbs. 88 Days, 1.83lbs per week. I know I am low on this one so I am going to pound the pavement all week (also in preparation for the Firecracker 5k this Sunday yay- :)!- yeah I got 6 days to get ready.

Doctors' ignorance means that patients with the condition visit a GP on average four times before they get referred to a specialist, according to a report.

la lori added an entry about lose weight : So I do not know when this exactly happened but my brain FINALLY caught up to what my body wants to achieve. I have been trying to lose weight for 2 years now and it all has finally clicked. I gave up ALL junk food for Lent and by “JUNK FOOD ” I mean anything I deem junky. I am being pretty strict at the moment but its working and exercise is helping me destress and actually be happier. I am very relieved that I am finally on a path to healthy eating and exercising for life.

Leg cramps, also known as night leg cramps, especially calf-muscle cramps, are fairly common. Some people experience cramps in the muscles of their feet, as well as their thigh muscles. In most cases these types of cramps occur while the individual is sleeping or resting. Leg cramps are sudden, painful involuntary contractions of a leg muscle...

More and more reports have been surfacing about weight-loss surgery "curing" type 2 diabetes. At the same time, more and more questions are being asked about this process, how it works, who it works for, and how long it may continue to work...

BMA Scotland has called for tough action to halt the rise of obesity and the host of illnesses that come with it. The call came as the Scottish Government launched its obesity strategy ahead of a debate in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday. Figures published in December 2009 revealed that one in five children is overweight and one in ten of these is obese or severely obese...

They said there was no evidence the remedies work and dismissed them as 'active deception' and 'sugar pills' which should not carry medical claims.

More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group they are at greater risk of certain kinds of birth defects and being low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy have received a $2.2 million federal grant to determine whether or not TV food advertising affects children's diet, physical activity and weight...

Scientists at Birmingham University in the UK are developing a new healthy chocolate bar where the fat content is replaced with... water. It sounds too good to be true, but it isn't! The researchers have been looking into ways to replace the fat particles in a normal chocolate bar with calorie-free alternatives like air, water or gels....

Rarely does frozen pizza taste as good as freshly made pizza from a restaurant or home . But as frozen pizzas go, this one isn't too bad at all. It doesn't look as good as the picture on the package, but this convenient pizza was enjoyable to eat and the serving size was very satisfying paired with some fruit or vegetables.

Overeating, mood swings, failing in class and even future binge-drinking. Worrying new research reveals...

Why is it so hard to stop at eating just one biscuit and so easy to finish off the packet? It might be a type of sugar based on one found in fruit.

The anxiety that often accompanies a chronic illness can chip away at quality of life and make patients less likely to follow their treatment plan. But regular exercise can significantly reduce symptoms of anxiety, a new University of Georgia study shows. In a study appearing in the Feb...

Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, may increase their risk of developing diabetes later in their pregnancy, according to a study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research that appears online in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology...