Popular diets do help people lose weight - and do not cause nutritional deficiency, research finds.

A major trial is set up to see whether a treatment to raise "good" cholesterol can prevent heart attacks and strokes.

A vitamin found in a range of common foods could protect against Alzheimer's Disease, researchers have claimed.

As new research shows the health service struggling to treat allergy sufferers, we offer some homespun remedies for that most common of conditions - hayfever.

A breakthrough in gene technology holds out the prospect of a more effective anti-ageing treatment.

Heart disease and stroke may be inherited, but often they are the result of lifestyle. Changing eating, exercise and smoking habits can play a significant part in prevention.

Malnutrition is thought to be responsible for an outbreak of Pellagra disease in the Angolan city of Kuito.

Doctors have developed a skin test which can reliably distinguish schizophrenics from normal people and from drug users and depressives.