US health officials are recommending an end to the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.

Doctors and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report said.

FADING memory is a taboo topic for older people. They fear that the search for fugitive names and objects is indicative of undiagnosed dementia.

Walter Bortz and Aubrey de Grey are both sights to behold.

New findings challenge asthma treatment, reports Arlene Harris.

CHILDREN do not play enough outdoors and are not experiencing nature, and this affects their health, a number of studies show.

THE owners of the nursing home at the centre of a national outcry over serious elderly abuse allegations have denied all claims made by independent health watchdogs.

A US pilot and doctor has been revealed as a fake.

TOBACCO promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media.

DIABETES patients may soon be able to take a pill instead of injections to control their condition.

A hospital acknowledged breaking state law when US doctors performed a hysterectomy on a severely disabled girl whose growth was medically stunted to make care easier for her parents.

A NEW study disputes health scares over hormone replacement therapy (HRT), saying the treatment used by millions of post-menopausal women may reduce, rather than increase, the risk of heart disease.

PEOPLE who eat oily fish at least once a week have increased protection against kidney cancer, according to a new Swedish study.

US stocks advanced today in light trading as Wall Street recovered from the previous session’s selloff and awaited tomorrow’s expected interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve.

DUE to the high number of premature deaths from breast cancer in Irish women, there have recently been calls for screening units in Waterford and Kilkenny.

California prepared last night to execute its third death row inmate in as many months. For the first time an anaesthetist was present to minimise the condemned man’s pain.

MAJOR criticism has been directed in the media recently towards the low-carbohydrate Atkins-type diets.

THE HRT cancer scare has knocked 49 cent off the Galen share price in brisk trading.

Police in the United States are investigating the murder of a 27-year-old Irishman in Chicago on Saturday morning.

UNITED STATES police have launched a murder investigation following the cold-blooded shooting of a Dublin man, who moved to Chicago six years ago to make his name as an actor.

A 27-year-old aspiring Irish actor was shot in the head in a seemingly random attack in Chicago, police said.

DR Robert C Atkins, whose best-selling low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet was dismissed as nutritional folly for years but was recently validated in some research, died yesterday, his spokesman said. He was 72.