Health
How bad a cold will be and how long it lasts depends on what is up your nose
Bugs living in the nostrils vary enormously between individuals and hold the key to how bad cold will be
You really aren’t yourself when you go without food proving being “hangry” is no myth
Being hungry changes moods and can make you angry
Watch – Tiny robot with ‘caterpillar’ legs could be used to deliver drugs inside human body
It has the equivalent strength of a human being able to 'easily' lift a 26-seat mini-bus
Cambridge scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in Alzheimer’s study
It would target the cause of alzheimer's amid hope that new drugs could be developed to treat dementia.
Malaria could be wiped out by making disease mosquitoes infertile
It is hoped the technique could be used in the wild in five years
Weight loss ‘can be boosted five-fold – simply by imagining it’
Researchers found that overweight people who used the new Functional Imagery Training (FIT) intervention lost an average of five times more weight
Rare eye infection that can cause blindness has been detected in south east England
There has been a threefold increase in Acanthamoeba keratitis, a painful and swollen infection of the cornea, since 2011
MS Society’s warning of smoking Multiple Sclerosis link
They say most sufferers are unaware of the link between smoking and the disease.
Are we more anxious than we have ever been before?
New research has revealed we could be more anxious than ever before, with the demands of modern life putting a strain on our mental wellbeing. Researchers who carried out a detailed study found pressure at work, home and in our social lives has lead 40 per cent of the nation to now believe they suffer from some sort of anxiety. More than one in five reckon they are now more fretful, edgy or tense than they were five years ago...