A long-delayed study funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency says one third of athletes may have knowingly doped shortly before they competed at the 2011 track world championships - although few of...

So-so results for a new type of cholesterol drug have left Merck in a quandary: Does the company try to bring it to market or scrap it? A large, long-term study of the drug showed that it...

Dozens of children died last week in a decrepit government hospital in northeastern India, prompting public outcry over whether an oxygen shortage was to blame. Answers remain unclear, but doctors who...

For the first time, a drug has helped prevent heart attacks by curbing inflammation, a new and very different approach than lowering cholesterol, the focus for many years. People on the drug also...

The Alfred Mizzi Foundation (TAMF), the University of Malta (UM) and the RIDT (Research, Innovation & Development Trust) have signed an agreement through which TAMF will be financing a research...

Vaccines save between two and three million lives per year by protecting individuals from diseases such as measles, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and others. Clean water is the only other...

Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and inhalers a day, the...

The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they've successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise. With headlines referring to...

Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and even high...

Autism Accreditation is an internationally-recognised quality standard provided by The National Autistic Society (NAS), the UK's leading charity for people affected by autism. When parents or...