Laptop users warned of knees damage

In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy developed a sponge-patterned skin discolouration on his left thigh after playing computer games for a few hours every day for several months.

Test tube baby hails Nobel winner

Cambridge physiologist Professor Robert Edwards developed IVF treatment with Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon, who died in 1988.

Nobel Prize for British IVF pioneer

Colleagues have reacted with delight to the news that British test tube baby pioneer Professor Robert Edwards has been given the Nobel Prize for medicine. Skip related content

Cambridge physiologist Prof Edwards, now 85, and Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologic surgeon, developed IVF technology in which egg cells are fertilised outside the body and implanted in the womb. Dr Steptoe died in 1988.

Sleeping well 'helps weight loss' - Yahoo! News UK

Sleeping well 'helps weight loss'

An adequate night's sleep not only increases fat loss for a dieter but can help control feelings of hunger, a study has shown.

Smoking 'raise oral cancer risk'

Smoking 'raise oral cancer risk'
Each year the diseases, known as upper aero-digestive tract (UADT) cancers, kill 10,000 people in the UK and more than 100,000 across Europe.

Dentists jailed over patient fraud

Dentists jailed over patient fraud
Ikhlaq Hussain, 38, of College Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham, was sentenced to 30 months and Jaspal Singh Bachada, 37, of Redlake Drive, Stourbridge, was jailed for 20 months.

Lead poisoning kills 400 children in Nigeria: MSF

A Nigerian girl walks past a dismantled makeshift structure
The children died over the last six months in several villages in Zamfara state, where lead-rich run-off from illegal gold mining has entered the soil and water supply, said Medecines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders - MSF).

New Portuguese centre seeks frontline in cancer research

General view of the amphitheater of the Champalimaud Center of the Unknown
For some, the Center's dramatic name might evoke a touch of magical realism: but with 500 million euros' (685 million dollars) funding from the will of a Portuguese industrialist, they have the means to back their vision.

World pours 11.7 billion dollars into anti-AIDS fight

The White House displays a large AIDS awareness ribbon in 2009
UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced the commitment at UN headquarters where more than 40 donor countries, private foundations, and corporations were meeting to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for 2011 through 2013.

'Fruit and veg for healthy baby'

'Fruit and veg for healthy baby'
Experts found that women who consumed three or more daily servings of leafy vegetables in the three months prior to falling pregnant had 50% less chance of having a small baby.