A third of people recently diagnosed with asthma do not actually have the condition, research suggests.

INHALERS prescribed for a serious lung disease could cause heart attacks, according to research.

Fresh hope has been offered to millions of heart-disease sufferers after doctors revealed they may have found a way of reversing the illness for the first time.

THE editor of a US medical journal who published an article saying foetuses probably do not feel pain until late pregnancy has been swamped by “horrible, vindictive” emails.

A review of medical evidence has found that foetuses do not feel pain until the final months of pregnancy – a powerful challenge to abortion opponents who hope that discussions about foetal pain will make women think twice.

A woman set to develop Alzheimer’s disease has given birth to a healthy baby who is free of the debilitating illness, it has emerged.