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Cookies and sugary drinks served at government meetings are about to go away. So are imported noodles and canned fish served in tourist bungalows.

Australian socialite Maureen Boyce's son has told a jury she wanted her alleged killer to leave her apartment and go back to New Zealand before she died

 

Pregnant women might increase their risk of a stillbirth if they sleep on their backs during their third trimester, a new study has found
 

Recent studies have shown that counselling only has short-term benefits. Taxpayers' money is better spent on therapies that last a lifetime, says Robin Bailey

A nurse continuously cyber bullied for more than five years by anonymous blog posts, some of which falsely accused her of being a sex worker, is just one example of the abuse those in the profession now have to face, a researcher says
 

Surgeons are performing hip replacements on children as young as ten because of the damage caused by obesity, new figures show

Clinicians reading only the headlines from oncology meetings of late might be forgiven for thinking that all of their patients with solid tumors should be given immunotherapy in one form or another...

British Medical Journal warns public spending squeeze will have dire consequences 
 

Amish people living in a rural part of Indiana have a rare genetic mutation that protects them from Type 2 diabetes and appears to significantly extend their life spans, according to a new study

 

A long-acting medication designed to help wean substance abusers off opioids is as effective as short-term therapies such as buprenorphine and methadone that patients must take every day, researchers report