In a move that may be shocking to some, but appears to have been in the cards to happen, Ireland will move towards decriminalising drugs. This will include hero...
Just one year ago, Facebook feeds, Twitter feeds, even Tumblr, were awash with videos and photos of people pouring buckets of ice water over their heads, all in...
The papers are usually filled with headlines about how over stretched the NHS has become; how patient lists are too much to handle for our doctors. However one ...
In another show that India is developing in to a world power and what we call a “First World Country”, they have eliminated another disease as a potential kille...
In yet another show of how governments should really work harder to protect their citizens, a man has been released after spending the last 4 months in prison a...
In a world where, more often than not, we as humans can only feel disappointment in other members of our species, occasionally an act of unwarranted kindness ca...
A Texas woman may have been forced to undergo the most painful thing in the world, alone, in the cold and tucked away in a little box.
2 years ago Nicole Gue...
Vaccinations. The bane of children who fear needles everywhere and yet it is one of the most important things that will be done to you early in your life. For y...
It's that time of the half decade again here in the UK, the time of the General Election where those of voting age are given the option to vote on who they want...
ISIS are being attacked from an angle one would not normally expect. The rebels, who are currently fighting with the Islamic organisation, are being struck down...
In what may well represent an enormous leap in medicine experts are not looking in to the future, but looking into our past. A 1000 year old treatment for eye i...
My second year of university was going okay, and I was well into it, attending all the lectures (even the boring ones), and doing all my assignments and handing...
The death risk to smokers is far worse than had been previously feared. New data from a large scale study on the effects of tobacco now suggests that 1 in 2 peo...
Growing up isn’t easy. Most of us can relate to the various pressures and struggles of school, homework, peer pressure, exams, moving away, going to university,...
A new report, which investigated teenage relationships, indicates that as many as two in five teenage girls, some as young as 13, have experienced some form of ...
Drivers in England are soon going to be banned from smoking in their cars if they have a child as a passenger.
The new regulation, which will come in to effe...
A new HIV strain has mutated in some patients in Cuba and it appears to be much more aggressive and can develop into its worse older brother, AIDS, within just ...
Rowdy crowds, drunken youths and scantily clad women are just some of the images we all have when imagining a typical Saturday night out in Britain. But are the...
Gleb Kudriavtceva, a Russian boy aged just two years and nine months, has been given his life back by a spectacularly selfless act. Gleb has become the youngest...
On 23rd December 2014, Debbie Purdy died in a hospice at the age of 51. Purdy had been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for many years and had long ago made th...
A British couple who feared they would have to pay £130,000 in medical expenses when their son was born 11 weeks premature can breathe a sigh of relief. The New...
It is a story of which many are familiar with all across the United Kingdom. The NHS is creaking under the pressure. Just today, another headline shows how from...
The BBC reported today that E-Books "damage health" after a study was conducted by U.S. doctors. Their findings concluded that it took longer to go to sleep wit...
A wine bar in Lancaster is being prosecuted after a student has had to have her stomach removed after she was served liquid nitrogen.
Gaby Scanlon, a native ...
What do you think of when someone says the words: “Food Poverty”? Your mind probably jumps straight to charity appeals on TV, countries struck by disaster or im...
A new study has found that the HIV virus’ ability to cause AIDS is weakening over time. This means that AIDS may well become a thing of the past.
This new re...
Care Minister, Norman Lamb announced that the health system must be “modernised” and a new online application will be developed to help young people with mental...
New research has shown that using an extract from the cannabis plant can have dramatic effects on brain tumours.
This new research has found that when an ext...
The United States of America and China have signed an ambitious agreement designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions ahead of next year’s summit.
President O...
A law change that has been needed for a while, finally appears to have some traction. The deputy chair of British Medical Association says law on ‘dying with di...
