A drug which is already licensed for use could be used to treat sight problems in some albino people, say US researchers.
Natural Health
Cancer cost 'crisis' warning from oncologists
- 26 September 2011
The cost of treating cancer in the developed world is spiralling and is "heading towards a crisis", an international team of researchers says.
Conjoined twins separated by Great Ormond Street doctors
- 19 September 2011
Twins who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors.
Big buttocks: Where does our obsession come from?
- 11 February 2011
Surgeons are warning of the risks of DIY buttock enhancement after a 20-year-old woman died in the US from silicone injections. Why do so many women now want to be big-bottomed girls?
Lack of sleep 'linked to early death'
- 11 December 2010
Getting less than six hours sleep a night can lead to an early grave, UK and Italian researchers have warned.
They said people regularly having such little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a 25-year period than those who got an "ideal" six to eight hours.
They also found an association between sleeping for more than nine hours and early death, although that much sleep may merely be a marker of ill health.Bank sleep to fight tiredness, research says
- 11 December 2010
As anyone who has unwittingly drifted off at their desk will know - tiredness can really creep up on you when you least need it.
But a new study is offering some good news: it claims to prove that we can bank sleep - and store it up in advance of a tiring event.
Bed sharing 'risks babies' lives'
- 11 December 2010
Parents are being warned not to risk their babies' lives by sharing a bed with them while sleeping.
Latest evidence released by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) shows bed sharing is implicated in about half of cot deaths.
Dummies reduce risk of cot death
- 11 December 2010
Parents are being advised to give a dummy to newborn babies every time they sleep to reduce the risk of cot death.
The government recommendations come after a review of current evidence found dummies halved the risk sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
