HEALTH & WELLBEING

Oxycodone has emerged as one of the most deadliest opioid drug when it comes to overdose side effects.

This is a significant step in ensuring public healthcare, given the vulnerability of kiwis to cancer, highighted by certain studies

Sophie Turner has started a vicious chain that has made winter knock early for the members of the "Game of Thrones" cast, as they have ended nominating each other for the icy charitable movement.

Instant noodles are being linked to strokes and heart diseases.

An elderly woman, Gillian Bennett, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and suffering from dementia decided to take her own life on Aug 25.

A smartphone-linked 'bionic' pancreas that researchers believed is more accurate than the artificial pancreas.

According to a UCLA psychology study, latest technology has limited children's opportunities for face-to-face social interactions. They cannot recognize anger, sadness or anxiety.

Jennifer Aniston has given a peak inside her daily routine of beauty care.

Anita Wainwright, a mother of four from Birmingham, suffers from a rare medical condition, cataplexy, which causes her to have seizure and collapse every time she has heightened emotions like surprise, anger, sorrow, joy and orgasm during sexual intercourse.

Solutions to a rare genetic condition called, Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, was revealed.

A new research states that being stressed changes that way food is metabolised and the body tends to store more calories as fat. It causes the body to burn fat slower than those who are not stressed.

A 24-year-old multimillionaire, Mitsutoki Shigeta, was a father of 15 babies via surrogacy who wanted to have large family members.

A research conducted found that the hormone estrogen activated the serotonin neurons in the brain causing a decline in binge eating in female mice that was true to humans as well.

Scarlett-Rose Davis, a 3-year-old toddler from Birmingham, who became a sensation after using the F-word during an ice bucket challenge, has apologised and said that she won't use such bad words again.

A new survey has revealed that exposure to everyday noises can cause loss of hearing. The survey found that food processors, lawnmowers, noisy restaurants, trains and even the hair dryers that are used are putting Australians at a risk of hearing loss.

A three-man mobile laboratory team who were following findings contracted the deadly Ebola virus.

Research shows that bad recall can be banished with some smart string-pulling.

Several factors like the shape, size and even the colour of a wine glass can influence how much alcohol you pour as per a latest study on binge drinking.

For the research, 500 premature infants born between 26 and 31 weeks in Switzerland were studied.

634 couples smoking with marijuana were analysed to clarify previous studies.

Indian scientists have found a "wonder herb" growing in the roof of the world, Himalayas.

Most people may be aware of cancer and lung diseases that is caused by smoking. But there are other facts are still unknown to most.

A study by researchers in Italy found that people suffering from multiple sclerosis can improve strength with the help of Nintendo Wii.

A man from Michigan, Dan Maurer, is to have his 100-pound scrotum removed surgically on Aug. 28, reported News.com.au.

Researchers have found that a new sleep disorder called "sleep drunkenness" is affecting one in seven people.

Excess intake of salt or sodium is extremely harmful to health and can cause stomach cancer, strokes, heart ailments, high blood pressure and gastric ulcers among many other health related problems.

Autistic children have extra synapses in their brain and using a specific drug restores synaptic pruning and in turn might be able to reverses autistic-like-behavior in human beings as reported by the U.S. neuroscientists in the Neuron journal.

Kourtney Kardashian explains how she has adopted a healthier lifestyle for herself and her children and talks about parenting styles from her mother and her sister Kim.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo is believed to have come from a new and more dangerous strain. The alarm over Ebola continues with more flight cancellations and border closures.