Health

China on Tuesday said the H7N9 bird flu had spread to a new area as it confirmed the first case in the eastern province of Shandong in an outbreak which has so far killed 21 people

WOMEN don't need to wear a bra, a new French study suggests, saying the under-garment is a "false necessity".

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted kidneys grown in a lab into rats with some success, in what is viewed as an important step for potentially life-saving human kidney transplants in the future.

Have you ever noticed how some foods seem to fill you up for hours and others leave you feeling even hungrier?

Most mothers may be starting their infants on solid foods months sooner than specialists recommend, mistakenly believing their children are old enough to graduate from breast milk or formula – but many say they’re simply following doctors’ orders, according to a study published today.

For the first time, a human liver has been kept ‘alive’, warm, and functioning outside of the body, and successfully transplanted into a new patient, in a breakthrough that has massive implications for all organ transplants

Rapid treatment after HIV infection may be enough to "functionally cure" about a 10th of those diagnosed early, say researchers in France.

For the first time, a human liver has been kept ‘alive’, warm, and functioning outside of the body, and successfully transplanted into a new patient, in a breakthrough that has massive implications for all organ transplants

In putting Mayor Bloomberg’s soda ban on ice, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling did a huge disservice to the health and welfare of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

People may in future be able to have missing or diseased teeth replaced with ones grown from cells taken from their own mouth, scientists have predicted.