Adopting a low-fat diet and foregoing guilty pleasures such as crisps and fry-ups may not be the best way to slim, a study has found.

Babies in their first week of life are more susceptible to having a stroke than at any other time in their lives, but are also least likely to be diagnosed, according to a world expert in newborn medicine.

Antidepressants in pregnancy ‘may raise risk of fatal condition’ in unborn child

Bombing victim Erika Brannock is going back to where she was standing for last year’s Boston Marathon, so that she can move on, writes Abigail Jones.

A glass of milk a day can keep osteoarthritis (OA) at bay, at least for women with the disease affecting their knees, research has shown.

WOMEN can increase their risk of breast cancer by drinking as little as three small glasses of wine a week, a study has found.

DEPRESSION may increase the chances of women having a stroke.

THE new face of a woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee two years ago has been revealed in photos showing a startling transformation.

DOCTORS have performed a full face transplant on a US woman who was mauled by her friend’s pet chimpanzee two years ago.

AMERICA’S first full-face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was “Daddy, you’re so handsome”.

America’s first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter said to him when she saw him after the operation was: “Daddy, you’re so handsome.”

A TEXAS construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident two years ago has received the United States’ first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.

DEPENDENCE on televisions, mobile phones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly — in lack of sleep.

WHETHER the French woman who killed eight of her newborns suffered from a syndrome known as pregnancy denial may determine if she faces major prison time or intensive psychiatric care.

The US’s second face transplant recipient went public for the first time since the operation.

A Boston hospital has performed the US’s second face transplant, medics revealed today.

America’s first near-total face transplant has been carried out on a woman, a hospital announced today.

IN evidence to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee, Professor Brendan Drumm, chief executive of the HSE, last week stated: “The high prevalence of MRSA on our streets, as we speak, related to antibiotic use over the years.”

LONG-TERM oestrogen-only hormone replacement therapy for women who have had their wombs removed can increase the risk of breast cancer, researchers said today.

IT WAS a normal working day for Karen Daley in the summer of 1998 and she was busy in the emergency department of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where she had worked as a senior nurse for 23 years.

Middle-age women can cut their risk of strokes but not heart attacks by regularly taking low doses of aspirin, and the pills help prevent both problems in women 65 and older, a major study found today.

An obese woman and her eight-month-old foetus died of complications 18 months after a stomach-stapling operation – an apparent first that has prompted warnings about the risks of pregnancy soon after such surgery.

Eating less red meat and seafood while consuming more low-fat dairy products cuts the risk of developing the painful joint condition gout by about half, according to researchers who studied the diets of thousands of men.

Women who take an aspirin a day to reduce the risk of having a heart attack or stroke could increase their chances of developing cancer of the pancreas, researchers have found.

Photographer Yousuf Karsh, who gained international prominence with his 1941 portrait of a defiant Winston Churchill and photos of public figures such as Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway, has died in the US at the age of 93.