Widely used osteoporosis drugs may prevent breast, lung and colon cancers

The most commonly used medications for osteoporosis worldwide, bisphosphonates, may also prevent certain kinds of...

Google’s £125 cancer test arrives in Britain – but with a health warning

From today, 23andMe, a Google-backed company, will offer its customers in the UK reports on more than 100 health and...

New study reveals what it feels like to wake up during surgery

The largest study of its kind has provided insight into what happens when a patient wakes up during surgery...

This is how amazing your brain is...

The human brain is awesome. It functions 24 hours a day from the day we are born and only stops when we die.

Long-term complication rate low in nose job using patient's own rib cartilage

Using a patient's own rib cartilage for rhinoplasty appears to be associated with low rates of overall long-term...

Publishing: The peer-review scam

When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing...

Fragile X study offers hope of new autism treatment

People affected by a common inherited form of autism could be helped by a drug that is being tested as a treatment...

Protein structure 'holds key to heart muscle disease'

Researchers, including some from King's College London, say they now understand why faulty alpha-actinin stops...

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