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The small changes you can make to fight winter tiredness

It's a familiar scenario for many of us — the winter sets in and brings with it sluggishness and an inescapable feeling that you're running on empty.

China gives conditional OK to its first self-developed Alzheimer's drug

China has granted conditional approval to its first self-developed treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a move that may point to revived opportunities in a therapeutic area where drugmakers have burned billions of dollars without yielding a validated new drug.

When you eat may have bigger health effects than what

There's evidence that the old expression "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" could use some tweaking. With one important revision, this approach could help not just for better health, but also for losing weight.

Bacteria dislodged by Scottish hospital decontamination work

Work to clean up a hospital bacteria outbreak inadvertently led to more contamination, new documents reveal.

US physicians more likely to prescribe opioids if they received gifts from pharma companies

US physicians who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies related to opioid medications were more likely to prescribe opioids to their patients the following year, compared to physicians who did not receive such gifts, according to a new analysis led by health policy scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Study: Diagnosed levels of psychosis, anxiety more severe among men in London’s deprived areas

Excess psychosis diagnoses amongst Black and South Asian men in deprived urban areas could reflect a cluster of disadvantage in specific places, rather than individual experiences of deprivation alone, a study led by Queen Mary University of London researchers concludes.

Prenatal air pollution exposure linked to infants' decreased heart rate response to stress

A mother's exposure to particulate air pollution during pregnancy is associated with reduced cardiac response to stress in six-month-old infants, according to Mount Sinai (a hospital network in New York City) research published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Peanut-allergy therapy 'protection not a cure'

Treating peanut allergy with regular exposure to small amounts of the food is effective — but only if a patient stays on the therapy, a study suggests.

How far schoolkids live from junk food sources tied to obesity

For more than one million children attending New York City public schools, their choice of what to eat depends on which food sources are close to where they live.

British restaurant highchairs 'dirtier than tables' in UK

Parents in the UK have called for tests on restaurant furniture to be part of hygiene inspections after highchairs were found to be dirtier than tables.