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BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors who use age, weight and other factors to predict if a pregnant woman will need a Caesarean section to deliver her baby have a new gauge: the length of the cervix, researchers said on Wednesday.

It was six years after Ahmad Edwards was charged with firing a gun outside an Indianapolis department store that the delusional and schizophrenic man finally was found competent to stand trial. And when the day arrived, Edwards believed he should be his own attorney.

That blissful mood after an intense workout is no coincidence, a study shows.

Vogue made the proposal, but was it indecent?

At a Saturday seminar called Cosmetic Chemistry in Boston, young girls and their parents find out what after-shaves and lipsticks are really made of.

Nuremberg, Germany - Men are generally doing their own shopping for personal care products these days, and in the process they are lining up an array of different creams and styling products in the bathroom, a survey showed. According to the data com...

Singapore - Kindergartens and childcare centres across Singapore have been placed on full alert with 585 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in a single week, health officials said on Thursday. The Health Ministry's latest bulletin said the ...

Dr Andrew Wakefield, whose work sparked a public crisis of confidence in the MMR vaccine, faces the GMC.

A big waistline in your 40s could almost triple the threat of dementia in old age, according to new research.

A LEADING stem-cell researcher yesterday joined calls for MPs to support potentially life-saving work using animal-human hybrid embryos.