Tag: health

The first cannabis-based medicine for childhood epilepsy is expected to be available across Europe after its UK producer, GW Pharmaceuticals,…

The summer heatwaves have caused 1,435 deaths in France with mortality rates rising by about 9.1 per cent on the…

The recent revelations that British American Tobacco (BAT) is secretly funding the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the “free market”…

A two-year-old boy bled to death following a home circumcision at a refugee centre in Rome’s northeastern suburb of Monterotondo…

France’s gender equality minister Marlène Schiappa has donated her hair to a charity that makes wigs for women with cancer…

Air pollution responsible for more than 500,000 premature deaths per year in Europe, according to a study by the European…

A group of Indian artists visiting the UK to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War…

Russian social-media bots and organised trolls have been tweeting false information about vaccines, researchers say. The operation was to blame…

Ireland has voted by a landslide to reform its tough abortion laws, rejecting the advice of the Catholic Church.  An…

Scientists say one of the deadliest plagues in history may be linked to the Hun migration westward that further weakened…

Italian hemp buds are being sold as “cannabis lite” because their psychoactive content is tiny compared with cultivated cannabis meaning…

Hans Asperger, the Austrian paediatrician who pioneered studies into autism and gave his name to Asperger syndrome, “actively collaborated” on…

Cities across Poland saw large protests (pictured) to oppose a tightening of abortion laws. Poland already has some of the…

The number of deaths caused by measles in Europe and Eurasia tripled to 35 last year, according to the World…

Male circumcision could be outlawed for the first time under a draft law in Iceland that has positioned children’s rights…