With the weather heating up, we pulled together an issue of A&H that will help you keep calm and fresh.  Parenting in summer, hair care, skin care, beating the heat, real lives, organic food,...

A standard brain scanning technique is showing promise for helping doctors distinguish between patients in a vegetative state and those with hidden signs of consciousness. A study released...

A new kind of drug for the deadliest form of skin cancer helped some patients survive for at least three years, a study shows. It's a remarkable advance for patients who until recently faced dismal...

Jack Crowley was 15 when a baseball hit him in the chest and stopped his heart. The Long Island teen survived thanks to a police officer who grabbed a defibrillator and shocked his heart back into...

Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if they were a virus,...

A new federal study of the potential dangers of cellphone radiation, conducted in rats, found a slight increase in brain tumors in males and raised long-dormant concerns about the safety of spending...

Yesterday was World No Tobacco Day. In this edition, we provide the latest on what the EU – and Malta – are doing to try and dissuade people from taking up the habit, as well as what you...

Despite never having been much of a heavy smoker, a 63-year-old man said he has been told several times that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether someone smokes 10 or 40 cigarettes a day...

Almost half of all heart attacks cause no obvious symptoms, yet they can still be life-threatening, according to research on more than 9,000 middle-aged men and women. It's one of the biggest...

Government today announced that the price of eleven medicines will be reduced. Minister for Social Dialogue Helena Dalli said this in a press conference at the pharmaceutical complex of Aurobindo in...