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Inactivity (lack of exercise) is supposedly causing around the same number of deaths as smoking does according to a recent Lancet study but this seems an outrageous declaration! Seemingly, smoking causes the death of 100,000 British every year and a lack of exercise is not far behind as a major caus...

The Food and drug Administration in the US has approved a new weight loss pill...

Due to the fact that the Olympics are likely to cause a certain amount of disruption in the coming weeks, the emergency contraceptive pill will become widely available and free of charge in London since it could potentially be difficult for women to access sexual health services during this busy per...

The human sex drive is often thought to be greater among men and this has always been put down to the higher levels of testosterone in the male body but a recent study carried out at the University of Michigan has prompted us to question the role of testosterone in sexual desire...

Orexigen Therapeutics has set out to recruit the 10,000 participants that it requires for the cardiovascular risk study of Contrave, its lead weight loss drug candidate...