Health

Those whose body clocks dictate going to bed late are often left sleepy in the day, eating badly with depression and stress.

A lifesaving world-first device that can keep a human liver functioning outside the body for 24 hours has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. OrganOx, from Oxford, have created the ‘metra’, which mimics the environment of the human body by constantly streaming warm oxygenated blood through the disembodied liver. The invention breaks with 40 years of traditional organ preservation in ice, doubling the time that organs can be preserved prior to transplantation, and is set to save countless lives. It...

Junk food contains chemicals that can cause a potentially fatal reaction to eggs, peanuts, milk or other products.

It is changing the way we pay attention, remember things and interact with other people, say scientists.

The black carbon has been observed causing changes to the blood vessels around the organs for the first time.

Thanks to the influence of social media culture and sustained awareness efforts, the famous myth of the bad British teeth is slowly dying. According to recent research, the UK does better than the US in terms of oral health and Brits now spend on average around £2 billion on private dental care every year, which is 30% more than in 2010. The demand for professional tooth whitening and orthodontics is at an all-time high, but experts warn that this optimistic...

It offers hope of the first drug that treats the cause of the devastating neurodegenerative illness.

Exercise may somehow activate the brain's normal pruning processes dubbed "the brain's garbage collectors" by getting rid of inactive connections

Bad oral hygiene has been linked to the devastating neurological illness for years. Now scientists have discovered a clear connection for the first time.