Getting addicted to smoking at a young age is generally disastrous and means the habit may last life long. A new study out of Canada is indication teen smokers do...

Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.

A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its Moon from 50 million kilometres away, making an alien’s-eye view of our world.

THE ABC’s South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd is facing drugs charges after being arrested in Singapore. The 41-year-old was arrested earlier this week and is...

Indian and Japanese engineers have developed a ‘microneedle’ that causes no pain on being inserted in the skin as it mimics the way a female mosquito sucks...

Scientists predict that advances in test-tube fertilisation procedures may soon make it possible for women to give birth even at the age of 100

China provides free contraceptives to nearly 120 million women in rural areas every year, a senior family planning official said Friday, hailing the country’s...

Your odds of surviving cancer depend on which country you live in. And, in the United States, it also depends on whether you’re black or white, a new study...

Can’t help to understand why your husband’s diet chart is not helping you get rid of those love handles? Well, a group of researchers have the answer for...

A new study has shown that more Internet time, more alcohol consumption, and less sleep are contributing to weight gain in teenage girls.

Researchers have finally been able to show how the male and female brain are poles apart. The research contradicts the long-held theory that the differences in the way...

A chicken raiser in southern China has been making big bucks by feeding his livestock with medicinal liquor. The raiser from Jiangxi province has been feeding his...

Looks like granny and mom were right all along, for Swaddling the little baby is making a comeback.

If you think men can simply ignore their biological clock, think again as a new study shows that their fertility is just as susceptible to the effects of time as that...

One in five parliamentarians in Britain suffers from mental illness caused by the stress of their public lives, a confidential survey of MPs and peers has found.

A culture of promiscuity among the young has sent rates of sexually-transmitted infections soaring to record levels, doctors have warned.

Women remain confused about the right way to check their breasts for early signs of cancer, says a charity.

Jessie Scott, an 18-year-old from Draper, Utah has been in a coma since the end of April because of a critical error which occurred at a Walmart pharmacy.

ENCOURAGING women to systematically examine themselves for signs of breast cancer does not reduce deaths from the disease, a major review of the evidence showed...

Contrary to the complaints of many dieters, a new study has shown that being hungry may make you feel happy.