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...

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.

Death or disability? - It's not just aspirin which has come under fire recently. Other standard treatments such as thrombolysis are also being questioned after trials revea...

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.

Aspirin: - It doesn't prevent heart attack, either - We don't mean to have it in for aspirin, but following last week's alert about its inability to protect against cancer, another study has revealed tha...

Lower doses for strokes - Stroke victims can reduce their dosage of aspirin by nine tenths and still prevent further recurrences. ...

Take two aspirin? - Few disorders are as devastating and frightening for an individual as stroke. Often without warning, life can be torn apart by the sudden loss of basi...