Irish-based researchers have developed a new, practical treatment that could help tackle one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

LUGNANO is a municipality in Italy’s Umbrian region. Archaeologists, working in La Necropoli dei Bambini (the Cemetery of the Babies) there this summer, found the skull of a child with a stone in its mouth, writes Richard Collins.

Girls who start puberty earlier are more likely to be overweight as adults.

Sitting and binge-watching more than four hours of television a day could increase the risk of bowel cancer among men, a study has revealed.

A Dublin based digital marketing company has secured €4.2m in new business this year.

City air pollution can cancel out the beneficial effects of exercise in older adults, say scientists.

Food companies are being targeted by the World Health Organisation in a major drive to tackle childhood obesity around the world.

Rates of obesity among children and teenagers have soared 10-fold around the world in the past four decades, a global study has shown.

"A precautionary approach is still reasonable, but with luck this should dispel any guilt and anxiety felt by women who have an occasional glass of wine while they are pregnant."

The concept of being “fit but fat” is a myth, researchers have said.

Research has suggested that coffee could cut the risk of dying early.

The study claims cancer risk could be reduced by eating green vegetables, such as spinach or green beans, yellow vegetables, such as peppers and carrots, and cruciferous vegetables.

Poverty should be regarded as a major risk factor for premature death, scientists have concluded after analysing data on 1.7 million people.

Cutting cholesterol right back to the levels we were born with reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by a third, a study in England has shown.

Cosmic dust raining down from space has been discovered on rooftops in three major cities.

Twitter has agreed to acquire a London-based artificial intelligence startup to make tweeted live videos look more professional. 

A simple and cheap blood test could warn people if they are at risk of suffering a heart attack within five years, researchers have said.

Britain: When a cheating spouse upsets the sparrow love nest, it is the children who suffer, scientists have discovered.

The World Health Organisation says excessive weight, obesity, ageing, and population growth drove a nearly fourfold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter- century, affecting 422m people in 2014.

There is no evidence that Irish doctors are over-diagnosing asthma in children but the potentially fatal condition is often trivialised, the Asthma Society of Ireland has said.

Facts, not fads, should lead discussions about rising obesity levels, the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute has said.

People are plumping up at such a rate that by 2025 roughly a fifth of the human race will be obese, experts have warned.

Some frequently prescribed antibiotics could be rendered “ineffective”, researchers have warned after finding high rates of resistance to the drugs among children with a common condition.

Assisted reproduction is an “evolutionary experiment” that could prove as big a health disaster as junk food, a scientist has warned.

Women undergoing IVF could have an 80% chance of success thanks to a test which has been developed by British scientists.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Motion sickness may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to research that's ongoing at Imperial College London.

The Government has been urged to assess a new drug that treats the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis.

Scientists have found a protein they believe can help boost immunity to cancer and viruses.

We all love the New Year scrum of sales and product launches, and domestic appliance-makers are shoulder to shoulder vying wildly for our attention. 

A protein responsible for the brain’s sweet tooth could point the way to new drugs that prevent obesity.

Scientists have identified a sequence of biological events that could trigger life-threatening asthma attacks in people suffering from colds — a finding that holds the potential for developing more effective medicines.

Trinity College Dublin has dropped 10 places in a global universities' league table.

Most Irish universities have dropped in the latest global rankings despite increases in many of their overall scores.

A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardise a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking.

An inexpensive cholesterol- lowering pill may offer new hope to patients with progressing multiple sclerosis (MS), research suggests.

Cholesterol-lowering statins have almost no side-effects, with patients experiencing fewer adverse symptoms than when taking a dummy drug, researchers say.

Evidence of a freshwater lake that may once have supported life has been discovered on Mars.

A new European space mission will listen for the “sound” made by gravity disturbing the fabric of space-time.

Men who remain jobless for more than two years show signs of faster genetic ageing