Health

Tests on mice genetically engineered to have a defective potassium channel found they were more sensitive to temperature and touch stimuli on their faces

Researchers found that people who wear a hearing aid were able to maintain their brain function better than those who did not.

Living a healthy lifestyle is associated with offsetting a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to a new study. Research suggests the risk of developing dementia was 32% lower in people with a high genetic risk if they had followed a healthy lifestyle, compared to those who had an unhealthy lifestyle. Joint lead author Dr Elzbieta Kuzma, at the University of Exeter Medical School, said the study was the first to analyse the extent to which you may offset your...

In May and June, 119,320 patients waited on a trolley in A&E for more than four hours.

New research has found that despite having nearly identical DNA sequences, an evolutionary shift means that humans are less able to turn "bad" calorie-storing fat into the "good" calorie-burning kind.

The Japanese brew is the finely ground powder of new leaves from shade-grown, 90% shade, Camellia sinensis green tea bushes.

However if they were aware, most pet owners would like their animals to give blood to help others according to researchers from the Royal Veterinary College.

People with dementia have spent almost £15 billion of their own money in the last two years waiting for Government care reforms, a charity has claimed. The Alzheimer’s Society said the Government must now publish details of how spiralling social care costs will be met in order to prevent people with dementia draining their own resources. In March 2017, ministers promised a social care Green Paper by the summer, but it has now been delayed several times. The latest from...

Advanced bowel cancer patients who have stopped responding to one of the main drugs used to treat it could be helped by immunotherapy, researchers have found. Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, have been exploring how tumours become resistant to cetuximab. They looked at 35 people with advanced bowel cancer and found that cancer-killing immune cells were on average six times more active in tumours that had become resistant...