Death rate plunge: not from screening - Health officials who have been congratulating their extensive mammogram screening programmes as the reason for the sudden drop in breast cancer deaths...

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns - Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered.

Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

A children’s health scandal exposed - Children as young as two are being prescribed powerful mood-changing drugs such as Prozac and other antidepressants. Although usage usually begins at...

Cold - not bugs - leads to high winter death rates - New evidence shows that being cold is responsible for more preventable (excess) deaths than the flu in winter.

Cancer: Death rate drops 60 per cent if you have someone to talk to - Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression.

Children of smokers face increased cancer risk children of smokers fa - Almost one-fifth of lung cancers among non-smokers result from a high level of exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood and adolescence.

Mobile phones: They increase cancer risk in children fivefold - Children and young adults have a five times greater risk of developing brain tumours from mobile phones than older people, a leading researcher believ...