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Obesity is a chronic disease and a significant global health challenge. It has been designed to treat type 2 diabetes but it has also been approved under the label Saxenda as a weight-loss treatment.

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes are more likely than others to later smoke cigarettes and use other tobacco products, The Associated Press reports. However we still have concerns about the impact on the population of e-cigarettes and support the need for better regulation and...

Unlike a previously-believed thought that weight gain leads to a protruded stomach, a latest study has associated heavy smoking with the appearance of a fat stomach.

It sounds like a gruesome, Frankenstein-style experiment – but there is a good reason researchers at Ohio State University have a grown a human brain in a dish.

The researchers found that those, who showed greater maniac traits, were the ones who had a greater IQ in the childhood.

The results don’t prove that bigger workloads were responsible for the increased risk of heart disease or stroke, but there are several reasons to think the extra hours were responsible, the researchers wrote.

A TOBACCO company is trying to use Freedom of Information laws to access taxpayer-funded research into what thousands of Victorian children think about smoking.

The technology is called optogenetics and it is when scientists utilize light to control activity in the brain.

It has the maturity of a 5-week-old fetal brain, and contains 99 percent of the genes in a fully developed human fetal brain. In fact, the brain organoid could permit rapid and accurate testing of experimental drugs for brain conditions before the clinical trial stage, as well as...

This syndrome may develop in women who had no prior problems with their libido and occur regardless of the type of sexual activity or situation with the partner, says the FDA.

The US government is launching a $5m (£3.2m) initiative to combat the use and trafficking of heroin, with a focus on prioritising treatment rather than punishment.

Fast food chains are serving up kids meals dangerously high in salt, according to new research by the World Action on Salt and Health.

Importantly, the longer people worked each week, the greater the risk they run, with those working between 41 and 48 hours having a 10 higher risk of stroke and those working 49 to 54 hours having a 27 per cent increased risk.

Professor Daniel Smith, in the Institute of Health & Wellbeing at Glasgow, said: “A possible link between bipolar disorder and intelligence and creativity has been discussed for many years and many studies have suggested a link”.

The Food and Drug Administration has sexual-health/fda-approves-says-no-female-viagra-n411711″ target=”_blank”>approved the first prescription drug aimed at boosting women’s libido, but don’t go calling the new pink pill the “female...