Five years of economic recession and austerity in Ireland have had a dramatic negative impact on the male suicide rate and the self-harm rate among men and women, a study has found.

People who are obese could also be considered disabled, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

Being obese can shorten life by eight years and condemn a person to almost two decades of ill-health, new research has shown.

Back in early December, the doubt crept in.

Canada’s highest court has thrown out the country’s anti-prostitution laws in a victory for sex workers who said a ban on brothels and other measures made their profession more dangerous.

A widely-used anti-clotting pill can double the risk of stroke when patients with a faulty heart rhythm first start taking it, a study has found.

THE tag #feministporn isn’t trending on Twitter — not just yet.

Parents often use the age-old threat “you’ll get square eyes if you watch that screen for too long” but research has found that one of the classic games of yesteryear could actually help to cure a common eye affliction.

They’ve hacked the CIA, the Sun newspaper, the Church of Scientology and a host of other large corporations, sparking a global police crackdown. But who and what are Anonymous? A radical new form of activism – or just bored teenagers? Carole Cadwalladr spoke with some of the ‘hacktivists’ and the experts who tracked them down

EATING fresh fruit and raw vegetables can weaken genetic effects that are strongly linked to heart disease, a study has shown.

SCIENTISTS have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.

CROWS and falcons are top of the pecking order in the league table of bird-brains, it was revealed today. Next come hawks, followed by woodpeckers and herons.