Don't miss Combating Cancer PART 2, the second publication in The Malta Independent on Sunday Health Report Series out this Sunday 28 July.  Following the success of the first health report...

For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children. No one was interested.   But by 2010, the time was right. Alarm over rising rates of childhood obesity was reaching...

The European Commission’s ‘Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable’ campaign has teamed up with National Health Promotion Unit for a series of activities this year, to provide information about...

New research boosts the "use it or lose it" theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other...

If you're lucky enough to live into your 90s, how well will your brain hold up? You may have an edge over people who got there ahead of you, a new study hints.   Researchers found that...

New research boosts the "use it or lose it" theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other...

In a third-floor room of a London hospital with orange and white walls draped with Tibetan prayer flags, roughly a dozen people gathered recently to perform vocal exercises and sing songs, including...

Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday.   The female overdose...

The emotional pain and practical demands facing Nelson Mandela's family are universal: confronting the final days of an elderly loved one. There are no rules for how or when the end may arrive....

The National Institutes of Health plans to end most use of chimpanzees in U.S. government medical research, saying humans' closest relatives "deserve special...