Drinking one or two glasses of wine a week during pregnancy can have an impact on a child's IQ, a study says.

Researchers from Oxford and Bristol universities looked at the IQ scores of 4,000 children as well as recording the alcohol intake of their mothers.

Fast-food breakfast sandwiches could be “a time bomb in a bun”—and eating even one fat-laden morning meal has immediate adverse effects on your arteries, according to a new study presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress meeting in Toronto.

A "chemo-bath" which delivers toxic cancer drugs to just one organ in the body has been used on patients in the UK for the first time, say doctors.

Chemotherapy drugs kill rapidly growing cells such as cancers, but they also attack healthy parts of the body

A new drug is the "most effective" treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, say UK researchers.

During MS the body's immune system turns on its own nerves causing debilitating muscle problems.

Women invited for breast cancer screening in the UK are to be given more information about the potential harms of being tested.

An independent review was set up to settle a fierce debate about whether the measure did more harm than good.

Scores of people in the Netherlands and the US have caught salmonella after eating Dutch smoked salmon, say Dutch health authorities.

About 200 people have fallen ill in the Netherlands along with about 100 people in the US, said the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM).

Being overweight is not just bad for waistlines but for brains too, say researchers who have linked obesity to declining mental performance.

Experts are not sure why this might be, but say metabolic changes such as high blood sugar and raised cholesterol are likely to be involved.

Scientists behind Olympic Team GB are working on genetic tests to understand why some athletes are prone to injury, BBC's Newsnight has learned.

Tendon injuries and stress fractures are common in elite athletes, but how and why they happen is less clear.

Time-lapse photography has shown that embryos of smoking women develop more slowly.

French academics in an IVF clinic took regular pictures of an egg from the moment it was fertilised until it was ready to be implanted into the mother.

An NHS hospital trust has been formally warned it could be declared bust - in the first case of its kind.

South London Healthcare, a merger of three hospital trusts, had a £69m debt at the start of the financial year.

At least three people in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking life saving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors.

The women died after attending churches in London where they were encouraged to stop taking the antiretroviral drugs in the belief that God would heal them, their friends and a leading HIV doctor said.

A mutated gene has been found in a third of patients with the most common form of kidney cancer.

The researchers said the discovery of a second major gene linked to renal cancer was a major advance.

Does winter get you down? Plenty of people suffer mood changes ranging from mild "winter doldrums" to full-blown seasonal affective disorder (aptly acronymed SAD), all due to the decrease in daylight that occurs in fall and winter and the hormonal changes that coincide with it.

Ready for cold and flu season? Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its winter forecast, predicting a colder and wetter than average winter for the Pacific

When it comes to rubdowns, your back, shoulders, and feet hog all the attention. But anyone who has ever had the pleasure of a scalp or face massage will be happy to know that top-floor TLC

If you walk into your doctor's office with high cholesterol, you might, like 30 million other Americans, walk out with a prescription for a statin—a drug such as Lipitor, Crestor, or Zocor. Statins, which block a liver enzyme that helps create cholesterol, work wonders for some: The average person taking one will see her "bad" LDL drop between 20 and 60% in a month.

Scientists have discovered how a faulty gene can increase the risk of kidney tumours.

Imperial College London researchers looked at cells from people with VHL syndrome - an inherited condition.