Calcium may cut colon cancer risk, says study - Calcium supplements may reduce the risk of colon cancer, according to a new report. ...

Aspirin increases stroke risk in women - While small doses of aspirin may protect women from stroke, higher amounts raise the risk, suggests a large, long term study in the US. ...

Multivitamins: Why one group of women should take them every day - Doctors and researchers have been quick to downplay any benefits of taking a multi-vitamin every day – but a new study has found they can reduce the r...

The best high-street vitamins - They’re cheap and plentiful, but will they do you any good at all? As the quality of our food diminishes, so the humble multivitamin has become one of...

Multivitamins: The new spin that claims they are killers - Medical researchers will tie themselves up in knots in order to get people off nutritional solutions. The latest comes from Harvard, which claims tha...

Hrt women face greater risk of breast cancer - Women who choose hormone replacement therapy after menopause may be at greater risk of certain kinds of breast cancer, according to a US study. ...

The latest on hrt: less heart failure, more strokes? - Twenty years of prospective follow up in the US Nurses' Health Study shows that daily HRT containing oestrogen doses of 0.625 mg or higher plus proges...

Hrt and stroke:more bad news - Findings from the US Nurses' Health Study showed that women who use oestrogen replacement therapy at just 0.625 mg/day have 1.35 times the risk of str...