Nicole Appleton has described husband Liam Gallagher as her "rock".

GREATER use of aspirin and other low-cost generic medicines would significantly reduce the toll from heart disease and stroke, according to a seven-year global study.

SMOKING, poor diet, an expanded waistline and stress are included in a check-list of 10 risk factors most closely associated with stroke, experts have revealed.

Smoking, poor diet and an expanded waistline are included in a check-list of 10 risk factors most closely associated with stroke, experts revealed today.

A judge acquitted three doctors, a New Jersey company and a former Red Cross official of criminal charges in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands of Canadians with HIV or hepatitis and resulted in more than 3,000 deaths.

THE letter from Paul Kokoski of Hamilton, Ontario (Irish Examiner, November 27) cannot be allowed to pass unanswered.

NICOLAS ROCHE, whose illustrious father Stephen won the world title as part of his triple crown in 1987, will get the Irish interest underway when he goes in the 30.8k U-23 individual time trial at the world cycling championships in Hamilton, Ontario, today.

Scientists say a meteorite which fell in a Canadian farmer's field was probably once part of the core of a small planet.