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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Psychological group therapy for women with breast cancer may help them not only to cope better with their disease but also live longer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Eating a high-fat diet in pregnancy may cause changes in the foetal brain that lead to over-eating and obesity early in life, research suggests.

The health of older people varies widely between European countries, even in those with longer life expectancies, a report claims.

The emotional legal battle over whether to keep a 12-year-old new york boy on life support at Children's National Medical Center ended early Saturday after the boy's heart stopped beating, an attorney for the boy's family said yesterday.

THE number of years of healthy active life people live after the age of 50 varies greatly across Europe, a study has shown. People grew old most comfortably in Denmark, where

ASPIRIN can reduce the symptoms of prostate cancer, American scientists have found.

(American Physiological Society) Young and healthy African-American men were found to silently develop hypertension earlier than their white counterparts, and this rise in blood pressure may go undetected unless young African-American men are screened by measuring central blood pressure, not brachial pressure, according to a new study.

An innovative loyalty scheme that will see people in Manchester offered incentives to live more healthily has secured multi-million pound backing from the government. The 'points4life' scheme, developed by NHS Manchester and Manchester City Council, will receive 4.6 million pound to help local people enjoy healthier lives. The announcement follows confirmation by Secretary of State Alan Johnson that Manchester has been awarded 'Healthy Town' status as part of the government's programme to tackle growing rates of obesity caused by diet and inactivity. read more

Scientists at the University of Liverpool are monitoring nutrient concentrations in Liverpool Bay and the eastern Irish Sea to improve our understanding of how inputs from rivers impact the health of this important aquatic ecosystem. read more

Two next generation DNA sequencing machines have been installed at the University of Liverpool to help scientists identify the genetic structure of cancer tissue. The SOLiD next generation analyser is the first instrument of its kind in the UK outside the major genome centre at Cambridge and has been bought by the University of Liverpool and the Clatterbridge Cancer Research Trust. The technology will be used to investigate the nature of important clinical conditions, such as cancer, superbugs and African sleeping sickness. read more