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Neurologists call it the "commonest movement disorder you've never heard of". Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) – or Ekbom's disease – is the uncontrollable urge to move your legs when resting. About 5-10% of adults will develop it (around five million[...]

My 18-year-old son smokes cannabis and says he hasn't been harmed by it, but I worry a lot, especially now that he admits he prefers skunk. How much more dangerous is skunk than straight cannabis? What can we say to try to wean him off it?

It's a windswept, freezing January afternoon on a remote beach in Scotland, and I'm watching four horses, each with a child on its back, plodding across the pebbles. Eight-year-old Rowan Isaacson is standing beside me on the beach. Like the other children,[...]

My boyfriend sweats on only one side of his head whenever he eats spicy food or a heavy meal.

Coffee and tea drinkers are less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than nondrinkers, with those drinking three to four cups a day at a 25 percent lower risk for the disease than those who drink less than two cups, a large analysis has found. It does not[...]

Bans on patients having bedside bouquets in hospital wards are more about convenience to staff than risk to patients, and ignore evidence that plants and flowers have a positive effect on patients' recovery. That's the conclusion of a study about hospital[...]

Children treated for cancers in childhood, including leukaemia, brain cancer, and lymphoma, run a higher risk of developing heart problems as adults, researchers say. The risk may be largely down to chemotherapy drugs or radiotherapy given to the chest[...]

Scientists are delivering some unexpected cheer this Christmas. They have found that a couple of glasses of champagne a day are good for your heart and blood circulation.

Taking antidepressants may change aspects of a person's personality, as well as lifting their mood, new research has claimed. A study found that people's tendencies for being neurotic or extroverted changed even more than their mood during antidepressant[...]

This week marks a poignant anniversary for Maria McNeilly and her husband Alan. On November 30 last year, bright, chatty, Spanish-born Maria, who loves Strictly Come Dancing and chatting on the phone, suffered the first of a series of strokes that would[...]