Egyptian mothers take to the internet for help and advice(read article…)

Are Dutch officials too close to the tobacco industry?(read article…)

A group of injured soldiers are training to climb Mount Everest for the charity Walking With The Wounded(read article…)

‘How cycling helped me fight my brain tumours’(read article…)

The British Government has announced it is to significantly increase funding to fight disease in the most deprived parts of the world.(read article…)

Debbie Lewis had her PIP breast implants removed after they ruptured and leaked(read article…)

A Tyneside soldier travels to Austria for the first stage of a process to fit him with a bionic arm he will be able to control with his mind.(read article…)

A singing teacher – who once auditioned for the Spice Girls, is trying to raise awareness of the rare neurological condition that’s paralysed her voice box.(read article…)

More than 100 people have died in Lahore after taking contaminated heart medicine, Pakistan officials have said.(read article…)

Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the “commercialisation of childbirth”(read article…)

Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine, says a University of Exeter study, because it is the difference between the arms that counts.(read article…)

A dose of ultrasound can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception.(read article…)

A new online test is being launched that will help people with asthma gauge to what extent they are at risk from a serious attack.(read article…)

Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.(read article…)

Women who take certain ulcer drugs have a small increased risk of hip fractures in later life, particularly if they smoke, US research suggests.(read article…)

A record number of potentially dangerous new legal highs were found in Europe last year, say doctors.(read article…)

Research which suggests that patients are more likely to die in hospital if they are admitted at the weekend is backed up by a major study.(read article…)

Why do some people never get depressed?(read article…)

Mother tries to raise the profile of a “syndrome without a name”(read article…)

Why 1920 was the biggest year for(read article…)

High school students in the small community of Leroy, New York State, have been coming down with strange tics and verbal outbursts, with no obvious cause.(read article…)

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge.(read article…)

At least 30 people have died in Ukraine and 10 in Poland after a sudden drop in temperatures across much of central and eastern Europe.(read article…)

South Africa’s leading HIV group warns that large numbers of “faulty” condoms handed out during the ANC centenary celebrations remain in circulation despite a recall.(read article…)

Measures introduced to lower the suicide rate in England and Wales in the past decade appear to have been successful, according to an analysis.(read article…)

Around one million packets of birth control tablets are being recalled in the US as they might not prevent pregnancy.(read article…)

A work of abstract expressionism by a chimp and a still life of a flower by an elephant are part of a new exhibition in London of artworks created by animals.(read article…)

Astronomers have found a fourth planet with conditions similar to Earth, which they say could support life.(read article…)

Scientists fail to find any evidence that “big cats” killed two roe deer found dead in Gloucestershire.(read article…)

Meadows of seagrass, a keystone species in marine ecosystems, found in the Mediterranean Sea are likely to be tens of thousands of years old, a study shows.(read article…)