Clamp down on baby food ads - The Indian government is clamping down on advertising of baby foods, despite ferocious opposition from manufacturers. ...

Chemicals found in breast milk - Breastfed infants are receiving up to 17 times the tolerable amount of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), according to the Committee on Tox...

Flame Retardants: Dangerous chemical now in breast milk - Flame retardant chemicals, which are in household furniture, textiles and electronic equipment, have found their way into human breast milk. Scientis...

Hrt-more bad news - In the second part of our special report, we catalogue the little known side effects of a drug that is more likely to make you ill than add sparkle to...

Wine: the good and the bad news - Moderate wine-drinkers those who drink between three and five glasses a day halve their chances of suffering a fatal heart attack or stroke. ...

Avastin: Bad News for the Brain - It’s no giant secret that chemotherapy is a knife-edge approach to healing—you take the drugs in the hopes that they will kill the cancer without kill...

Screening tests: more bad news - Only one in 14 women with a positive mammography result indicating breast cancer will actually have the condition, researchers have discovered. This m...

Ms protection from breast milk - Breastfed babies are less likely to develop multiple sclerosis, and could also be better protected in areas of high childhood mortality rates, two stu...