Bubbles, as we all know, work a treat in champagne, baths and chewing gum, and now they’re being used to potentially save lives worldwide via fascinating and revolutionary medical research. Minute bubbles – smaller in width than a human hair – are being tested in laboratories across the globe to ...

It’s been blamed for anything from anxiety to abdominal pain, diarrhoea, migraine, mood swings and lowered immunity. The term “leaky gut” may sound like what happens to you after a bad prawn curry, but this diagnosis is now being offered as the culprit for as many as 40 psychological and ...

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There are plenty of reasons why Australians are jumping online to buy their drugs. However, the increasing number of dot-com drug purchases going wrong has prompted health experts to warn that buying medicines and supplements from the internet is far more risky than doing the weekly grocery shop or picking ...

Full-fat, skim, almond or soy milk? Friend’s birthday or husband’s work dinner? Job promotion or more time with the family? We’re constantly being asked to choose how to spend our time, our money and our attention. The “plugged-in” nature of modern life only intensifies this – and that’s before you ...

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 ...

How much time do you spend fussing/thinking/obsessing over your hair? For most people their hair is their crowning glory and is evidenced by the fact Bad Hair Days are right up there on the list of The Most Frustrating Things on Earth. But what happens if your hair seems to ...

Want to look like you just walked out of a salon every single day? Well you’re going to need healthy, shiny hair to achieve that. And we’re going to show you how to get it. Your hair is what you eat Nutritionist Zoe Bingley-Pullin says the state of your hair ...