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  • Heels and slippers warning to women

    Women whose footwear is determined by extreme fashion – or extreme comfort – pay the price in later life, researchers warned last night. Read more

  • Stem cells like "phlogiston"

    The search for stem cells may prove as elusive as earlier scientific searches for substances such as phlogiston, an expert has claimed. Read more

  • HIV vaccine success

    Researchers are celebrating the first signs of success in a major trial of a vaccine against the Aids virus, HIV. Read more

  • Antidepressant risk in early pregnancy

    Researchers looking into the safety of antidepressants during pregnancy have found that there may be a small risk of heart defects in the unborn child. Read more

  • New doubts on prostate screening

    New research has come out against population-wide screening of men for prostate cancer using the prostate specific antigen test. Read more

  • Smoking bans cut heart attacks, claim

    Countries that have banned smoking in public places have seen a significant decline in the number of heart attacks. Read more

  • Cancer obesity link examined

    Childhood leukaemia has been linked to obesity in new research by doctors at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA. Read more

  • HRT link to lung cancer

    An expert yesterday questioned whether hormone replacement therapy has "any role" in medicine after new findings linked it to cancer. Read more

  • Swine flu resumes spread

    The spread of swine flu in Britain may have resumed with the return of children to school, health officials warned yesterday. Read more

  • New clue on Jackson killer drug

    Experts may be closer to explaining why people vary in their risk heart failure when exposed to anaesthestic drugs such as propofol. Read more