A 62-year-old Spanish woman has given birth to a healthy girl and encourages women in their later years to imitate her if they want to. Lina Alvarez left the Lucus Augusti Hospital in the...

Coeliac UK, the world's largest coeliac NGO with over 60,000 members have announced their partnership with local PR firm Narrative Structures to continue to raise awareness on coeliac...

The morning after pill will not require a doctor’s prescription and will be available over the counter, the Medicines Authority says. Earlier this month, a joint parliamentary committee had...

It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a study - this winter, when mosquitoes aren't biting - to help speed development of much-needed Zika vaccines. The quest for a vaccine...

New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span - one that's hard to extend without some sort of breakthrough that fixes all age-related problems. The record for the world's oldest...

When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked if she could have...

Five years ago there were a couple dozen stand-alone emergency centers in Texas, and now there are more than 200. Colorado, Ohio and other states also have seen steady growth. As these centers...

Four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations last month at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Three of the wombs have had to be removed because of poor...

It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity - mostly walking - helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch...

It's dreaded by moms-to-be but morning sickness is actually a good sign - for the baby, a government study shows, confirming common pregnancy lore and less rigorous research. Women with nausea...