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After prospective mothers were issued with alarming advice to consider putting off getting pregnant until the swine flu pandemic has passed, Andy Burnham, the health secretary, today urged the British public to have confidence in how the NHS was handling the crisis...

The pharmaceutical company Orexigen Therapeutics Inc today issued a statement saying that late-stage trials of their new weight loss pill Contrave have showed that the medication definitely could help obese people lose weight...

Research has suggested that slow blood flow may hamper the effects of the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins...

A new NHS pamphlet encouraging pensioners to rev up their sex lives with Viagra and dating agencies has been criticised as a waste of public funds...

A new study has indicated that components in grapefruit may offer hope for the development of a new slimming pill...