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Killer fats may be listed

Insurance companies quiz customers on sex-life secrets

Life insurers are asking people seeking insurance if they have sex with prostitutes.

Women's cold hands a problem

Rabbit plague bouncing back

Kim's illness detailed

Brainbox wins award for disease research

Professor Richard Faull has spent 35 years studying the human brain so he can help people affected by brain disorders including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

How the West poisoned Bangladesh

Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning - the legacy of a well-intentioned but ill-planned water project.

Swine flu blamed for rise in pregnancy deaths

The swine flu virus is being blamed for a leap in the number of pregnant women dying in New Zealand and Australia.

<i>Deborah Coddington</i>: Funding stapling is a kick in the guts for taxpayers

Secret of youth may be in your genes

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Millions wasting their time trying to get fit, says study

Millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time, scientists say.

Vaccine link to autism dismissed

A controversial reasearch paper was withdrawn as a result of a preliminary verdict that the authors had acted 'dishonestly' and 'irresponsibly'.

Fumigant not risky: forestry industry

Fat to the health fire

Gas link possible in Nelson nerve-disease deaths

Scientists are investigating a possible link between a rare degenerative nerve disease and a toxic gas blamed for four Nelson port workers 'deaths.

Virus hits camp ground