World Heart Day is being observed on September 29 and this year's focus is on cardiovascular disease prevention among women and children. Although poverty, malaria, AIDS and chronic diseases account for more than 53 per cent of all deaths, with people moving up the socio-economic ladder, lifestyle diseases have also emerged as a major killer,...

Non-smokers who live with or spend time with people who smoke are damaging their memory, a new study has found. The study by Northumbria University is a first of its kind to explore the relationship between exposure to other people's smoke and everyday memory problems. Dr Tom Heffernan and Dr Terence O'Neil, researchers at the Collaboration...

 Suicide is a multi-determined phenomenon that occurs against a background of complex interacting biological, social, psychological and environmental risk and protective factors. Despite the complexity of this phenomenon, suicide can be prevented. On average, almost 3000 people commit suicide daily. For every person who completes a suicide,...