Disease and Medical Conditions
Breast cancer experts say the risk is relative and other factors, such as obesity and alcohol, have a much greater effect.
"I was in and out of hospital every week...Asthma was destroying my life."
Left unchecked, it will wipe out entire families, run riot through communities and spread across borders, making it a threat to us all, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma writes.
I waited 10 years to be diagnosed with a debilitating, uncurable disease. Yet, a group of researchers thought it important to study the link between endometriosis and attractiveness. Doesn't that sound unfair? HuffPost UK opinion editor Lucy Pasha-Robinson writes.
The NHS spends more than £6bn each year treating type 2 diabetes and its complications.
A smartphone app might be able to accurately detect blood pressure – but will it work on people of colour?
Experts explain what might be causing bathroom trips at night and when you should be concerned.
It can sometimes feel like every week there is a new thing that’s said to cause cancer, from the obvious to the unexpected. The one element that most of these headline stirrers have in common is carcinogens. We take a look at the most commonly-faced factors in the International Agency For Research on Cancer’s list of cancer-causing carcinogenic substances and activities.
Scientists believe the disease can be passed to humans through the food chain.
The NHS has said that “obesity is the new smoking” after research from Cancer Research UK highlighted that obesity has overtaken smoking as the cause for some cancers. The causes of obesity are multiple and complex. Environmental factors like fast-food advertising, the availability of cheap, calorie-dense food and larger portions have all contributed to growing obesity rates around the world.