Health

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...

Scientists say that hearing has been salvaged in mice by 'snipping' a mutation out of their DNA. The technique also worked on human ear cells grown in the lab

The charity is continuing its campaign to warn the public about the dangers of obesity despite a backlash on social media.

Scientists say that impotence rates have more than doubled in the last 25 years as guys struggle to perform between the sheets.

Despite the vast differences in scale, the processes that light undergoes when travelling through the human body are very similar to those seen in space.

Experiments showed mice lacking a particular type of white blood cell remained as lean as their peers - even when fed a junk food style diet.

It marks a critical step towards a possible cure for humans. A clinical trial could start within a year.