The alcohol industry is misleading consumers with distorted and distracting health messages that downplay any related risk of cancer, researchers claim.

Living next to a busy road could increase the risk of obesity, the first research into the effects of noise pollution on waistlines has found.

The use of antidepressants during pregnancy is not linked to a higher overall risk of stillbirth and death in newborns, a study said, confounding a long-held opposing view of such drugs.

People have been “fooled” into perceiving the bodies of mannequins and other individuals as their own in a new scientific experiment, it was revealed today.