Do psychiatric patients benefit from physical and mental fitness training? Dutch mental health organisation the Trimbos Institute set out to investigate. Psychiatric patients follow a programme of fitness and breathing exercises with memory games and relaxation.
Malaria kills more than a million people worldwide every year. Scientists in Berlin have developed a way to produce an effective anti-malaria drug cheaply and in large quantities by using a formerly discarded by-product.
Heart disease kills more women every year than any other health condition. However, a new study suggests that more work is needed to help women and their doctors recognize heart attack symptoms, since women are less likely than men to show up at the hospital wit …
Neuropsychiatrist Galina Mindlin suggests that listening to particular songs on your mp3 player can make you a more productive person. An interview brings out more tips on how to use music to de-stress and be more productive.
Dame Judi Dench has revealed she can no longer read scripts due to her suffering from a degenerative condition that can lead to blindness... Dench has undergone treatment that she hopes will stop the progression of the condition, which her mother also suffered from, and allow …
A lot of people are found to have some form of auto-immune illness. Perhaps this will be of some help to those in search of answers.
Air pollution increases risk of stroke by 34 percent, say researchers.
Info graphic showing 10 major health benefits of marijuana.
This is troubling on so many levels. The maker of the Avastin cancer drug is currently warning doctors and hospitals that a fake version of the drug has been found, and it's really hard to tell if you might have the fraudulent version.
Scientists at the renowned Antwerp Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp University and Antwerp University Hospital have developed and tested a vaccine that suppresses the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS. The vaccine has already been tested