How to Avoid Weekend Food Indulgences
Food: One of life’s necessities and usually a hot topic of conversation. Whether it is the latest hot chef, food trend, cookbook, or diet craze, food crops up in conversations, news, blogs, and in our everyday lives. The topics of eating disorders, dieting, and health eating have been widely reported [...]

Drug ‘attacks cancer stem cells’
A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists.
In tests in mice, salinomycin killed breast cancer stem cells far more effectively than some existing drugs, and slowed tumour growth.
The drug, a farm antibiotic, has yet to be tested [...]

Many women ‘not on safest pill’
Many women are not taking the safest brand of the pill, say researchers.
Two separate studies in the British Medical Journal found that some oral contraceptives were linked with a higher risk of blood clot than others.
But experts stressed that blood clots are a rare side-effect of the combined pill and [...]