At first sight, Bailey seems like a typical 10-year-old boy. He’s energetic and lively; his love of basketball regularly sees him shooting hoops in the street with the neighbourhood kids after school. But first impressions can be deceiving. Bailey has cerebral palsy, a disorder that affects muscle and bone development ...

Coffee drinkers beware: there’s a chance your morning cup may contain a filler ingredient such as wheat, barley, corn, or even ground up sticks and twigs. These extra ingredients make ground coffee go farther and increase profits for producers, according to Brazilian researchers who have developed a test to detect ...

US researchers have developed a new screening strategy for ovarian cancer that can potentially detect the disease before it becomes fatal. There is currently no reliable early detection test or screening program for ovarian cancer so this breakthrough has the potential to save thousands of lives. Using results from an ongoing clinical ...