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Barry Rudd, pictured with his wife Lorraine, was refused the drug Sativex on the NHS while MS sufferers being treated a few miles away at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge are being prescribed the cannabis spray.

I had never heard of dystonia — until my doctors told me I had it.    

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.    

Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease.

People with conditions such as heart disease or Parkinson's could benefit from tissue grown with their own DNALorraine Barnes suffered a heart attack in 2005 and has lived with the consequences – extreme exhaustion and breathlessness – ever since. "I was separated from my husband and so my children, Charlotte and James, had to grow up overnight because suddenly they...

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, has divided medical opinionThe field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands....

Sara Ylen, 38, has been charged with fraud, false pretenses and using a computer to commit a crime after state police found no doctor who diagnosed the cancer.

Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university. As Colorado gears up for legalisation, we get the dope on Denver's 'green rush'I'm being driven around Denver by America's first professional stoner. William Breathes is the marijuana critic for the award-winning local paper Westword. Every week for the past three years,...

An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

Since the heart is such a delicate and critical organ, clinicians usually opt not to intervene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or cardiac disease. "But we think that all heart attacks deserve some kind of treatment because it puts so much stress on the rest of the heart," said Thomas Webster, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering....

A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease.

Job stress can boost your risk of heart disease, but a new study finds that living a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce that risk.

More than half of water samples from about 150 public swimming pools in Atlanta contained traces of fecal matter, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.    

Job stress can boost your risk of heart disease, but a new study finds that living a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce that risk.

Google and NASA are forming a joint research lab to look at quantum computing for things like facial recognition and understanding of disease.    

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

(Reuters) - An experimental leukemia treatment that Roche Holding AG hopes will improve upon its best-selling cancer drug Rituxan delayed disease progression twice as long as chemotherapy, according to preliminary trial data released on Wednesday.

Neuroscientists have shown for the first time that dysfunctional mitochondria in brain cells can lead to learning disabilities. The link between dysfunctional mitochondria and Parkinson's disease is known, but this new research shows that it is also present in other brain disorders.

Doctors' union report condemns austerity drive that hits most vulnerable and drives inequality, poverty, and ill healthA series of coalition policies threaten to have profoundly deleterious effects on children's lives, driving widening inequalities and sending more families into poverty, according to a scathing report by the British Medical Association.In the 250-page...

Singapore, — 46 employees from StarHub and their wholly-owned subsidiary Nucleus Connect, including seven women, shaved their heads today in support of Hair for Hope 2013. This is the second consecuti...

County championship-winning golfer Julia Wilkerson, 40, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, lashed out after caring for her 71-year-old mother, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, for six years.

The flurry of third-party chat apps are not the cure for what ails text messaging, they are a symptom of the disease

Google and NASA are forming a joint research lab to look at quantum computing for things like facial recognition and understanding of disease. Their computer is from D-Wave Systems, which appears to be producing quantum computing results years earlier than many expected.    

Job stress can boost your risk of heart disease, but a new study finds that living a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce that risk.

Job stress can boost your risk of heart disease, but a new study finds that living a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce that risk.

Awww!! If our hearts were any warmer, they'd melt polar icecaps! NBC gave us a first glimpse of The Michael J. Fox Show and it looks AH-Mazing!!! The Teen Wolf star teams with Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt and The Wire's Wendell Pierce in this sitcom about a retired TV personality courageously returning to work after a Parkinson's [...]

Job stress can boost your risk of heart disease, but a new study finds that living a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce that risk.

Genetic illness common among Jews of Libyan descent.

In lab tests, insects carrying disease home in on sweat-soaked stockings

Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, in Japan, found that men are more susceptible to disease as they get older because their defences weaken more quickly than women's do.

EXCLUSIVE: Gaby Wine, 37, had no family history of cancer until her mother died of disease. But after her brother urged her to get tested she discovered she had the faulty gene in 2010.

The African clawed frog carries a disease that threatens hundreds of other amphibian species, new research shows.    

Researchers found that simvastatin, a generic type of drug typically prescribed to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, hindered the positive effects of exercise for obese and overweight adults.

Scientists have identified four genes in baboons that influence levels of “bad” cholesterol. This discovery could lead to the development of new drugs to reduce the risk of heart disease.

Scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other -- a social behavior to ensure the parasite's survival and improve its chances of being transmitted to other humans. The finding could provide a niche for developing antimalarial drugs and vaccines that prevent or treat the disease by cutting these communication networks.

Toxic-waste sites pose as big a health threat as malaria in some developing nations.Kevin Chatham-Stephens at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and his colleagues produced a systematic assessment of the disease burden of toxic-waste sites in India (pictured),

Postnatal/adult neural stem cells (NSCs) within the rodent subventricular zone (SVZ; also called subependymal zone) generate doublecortin (Dcx)+ neuroblasts that migrate and integrate into olfactory bulb circuitry. Continuous production of neuroblasts is controlled by the SVZ microenvironmental niche. It is generally thought that enhancing the neurogenic activities of...

Internal medicine and infectious disease specialist Isaac Bogoch and his colleagues turned an iPhone 4S into a fairly accurate microscope by attaching an eight dollar, three-millimeter ball lens to the smartphone's camera lens using double sided tape. The DIY microscope was tested with 200 slides of stool samples from school children with different types of parasitic worms...

Angelina Jolie wrote a heartfelt column, "My Medial Choice" for the New York Times Tuesday, detailing her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy at age 37. She explained that her choice was based on her abnormally high genetic predisposition for breast cancer; doctors estimated there was an 87% chance she would get breast cancer and a 50% chance...

Travellers to far east and Caribbean told to be on lookout for warning signs after cases of tropical disease rise threefoldTravellers have been warned to take extra precautions against insect bites while abroad following a sharp rise in the incidence of dengue fever reported in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.Confirmed and probable cases in the first four months of...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes....

The risk of disease is usually about 65 per cent for women who carry the genes    

Innate lymphoid cells protect boundary tissues such as the skin, lung, and the gut from microbial onslaught. They also have shown they play a role in inflammatory disease. Researchers have found that maturation of ILC2s requires T-cell factor 1 to move forward. They describe that one mechanism used to build ILCs is the same as that in T cells. Both cell types use a protein...

Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Declines in smoking among youths were observed from the late 1990s. "However, limited information exists on trends in smokeless tobacco use among U.S. youths," write the authors of a recent study.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar-winning film star Angelina Jolie revealed on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer and said she hoped her story would inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite evidence suggesting that women whose uterus has been removed may be more likely to experience heart troubles, a new study finds that the usual signs of heart disease risk are not more severe in middle-aged women after hysterectomy.

Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, pulmonary hemorrhage, renal failure and death.

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met in Washington on Monday, reaffirming their commitment to the Syrian opposition. Cameron said his government has not yet made a decision to arm opposition fighters, but committed to double its non-lethal aid over the coming year as well as continue providing humanitarian relief for refugees. Obama spoke...

FIANCE Pitt’s praise as actress Jolie tells of double mastectomy after she was shown to be at risk of disease

Women with breast cancer now have more surgical options to treat their disease and save more of their breast. New techniques are faster, gentler and less disfiguring

LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has had a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer and says she hopes her story will inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger is offering cash rewards to anyone reporting a case of Guinea worm as part of efforts to permanently eradicate the parasitic disease in the impoverished West African nation, the health ministry said.

A new study finds that genes for diet, behavior, and disease in dogs and humans have evolved together.

Actor reveals she has had mastectomy because of gene defect that increases risk of developing cancer that killed her motherAngelina Jolie has revealed she has had a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, and has gone public with the news to raise awareness.The actor has a defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly increases her risk...

Separate studies of the human genome have found tantalising clues to the inherited causes of testicular cancer and non-inherited causes of congenital heart disease, journals reported on Sunday.

KARACHI - Another 10 dengue cases have been reported in Karachi during the last week, taking the total number to 98. Provincial Dengue Surveillance Cell of Sindh Health Department on Monday confirmed that nine more new case of dengue fever have been reported in the city from May 6 t 12, 2013. Dengue fever is a disease caused by a family of viruses that are transmitted...

Researchers report that cancers physically alter cells in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels that transports and stores immune cells throughout the body – to promote the spread of disease, a process called metastasis.

Separate studies of the human genome have found tantalising clues to the inherited causes of testicular cancer and non-inherited causes of congenital heart disease, journals reported on Sunday.

More doctors are growing concerned about the effects of childhood poverty in an age when income inequality is increasing and social mobility is declining.    

People with job stress and an unhealthy lifestyle are at higher risk of coronary artery disease than people who have job stress but lead healthy lifestyles, found a new study.

Separate studies of the human genome have found tantalising clues to the inherited causes of testicular cancer and non-inherited causes of congenital heart disease, journals reported on Sunday.

The Taliban has ended its war on polio vaccination workers and admitted immunisation is the only way to protect children from the disease.    

In a landmark cancer study, researchers have unraveled a longstanding mystery about how pancreatic tumor cells feed themselves, opening up new therapeutic possibilities for a notoriously lethal disease with few treatment options. Pancreatic cancer kills nearly 38,000 Americans annually, making it a leading cause of cancer death. The life expectancy for most people diagnosed...

Scientists are studying the DNA of the Del Sontro family for mutations or aberrations, hoping to see if genetics can explain why heart disease strikes apparently healthy people.    

Sydney Dad Tackles Childhood Obesity Epidemic Head On - - Disgusted by the amount of sugar and chemical laden so-called "healthy kids snacks" on the market, 180 Nutrition founder and father of three Stuart Cooke decided to take action and creat...

Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday.

Researchers at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) said the new 'superwheat' could be combined with current varieties to boost drought tolerance, disease resistance, as well as their yield.

* More than half of all plants, a third of animals at risk-study * Rapid peak in greenhouse gas emissions could reduce impacts By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 12 (Reuters) - The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising...

New mutations that are absent in parents but appear in their offspring account for at least 10 percent of severe congenital heart disease, reveals a massive genomics study.

Although genetic factors contribute to congenital heart disease, many children born with heart defects have healthy parents and siblings, suggesting that new mutations that arise spontaneously —- known as de novo mutations —- might contribute to the disease. New research shows that about 10 percent of these defects are caused by genetic mutations that are absent in...

Experiments have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like “antennae,” called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments.

I'm probably going to be consigned to whatever level of hell is reserved for pretentious editorialists for saying this, but sometimes when I'm trying to evaluate some new piece of technology, I consider whether Thoreau would have taken it to Walden Pond with him. Wait, just give me a second. I know how it sounds. Let me explain.

Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday.

The sons of a woman who chose to die at the Dignitas clinic rather than succumb to Huntington's Disease are now pushing for a change in the law to make "assisted dying" legal.