With festive season in full swing, many of us are waking up feeling a little bit fuzzy after having one too many drinks the night before. And while everyone swears by their own hangover cure, it can be difficult to know which ones actually work. Now Dr Dan Robertson, an in-house GP at Manchester-based Push …

Scientists have developed a DNA test that may diagnose fatal breast cancer one year earlier than current methods. Changes in a part of DNA, which the researchers named EFC#93, suggests early warning signs of life-threatening breast cancer. These changes occur in patients’ blood before their cancer becomes detectable in their breast tissue. A study revealed …

Sex is great – except when it’s excruciating and humiliating and lands you in hospital. And ER doctors and nurses are the ones who see it all – and have to help the patient without giggling. Men’s Health asked medics what the most horrendous intimacy-related injuries they had come across were. From the distressing, to …

Should all pregnant women be taking vitamin D supplements as well as folic acid to prevent pregnancy complications? That’s the suggestion from new research that could potentially save the lives of mothers and their babies. For the first time, scientists at the University of Birmingham have looked at exactly how the sunshine vitamin affects the …

Children who are extreme picky eaters may have an eating disorder that puts them at a higher risk for depression and anxiety. A child who is underweight, eats less than 20 types of foods and gets anxious around food may suffer from avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), the second most common eating disorder in …