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Soap actress Wendy Richard has died aged 65 from breast cancer, after managing to fight off the aggressive disease twice before it returned - in a deadly fatal form.

Richards was first diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990s, but with treatment she was able to fight it.
Then a second blow came when the tumour came [...]

Reports are emerging that a Meningitis vaccine, made by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Srl in Italy and distributed in the UK has been recalled due to sterility issue in the solvent.

So far, no children are considered to be at any risk from the solvent, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Reportedly the [...]

Teenagers who are overweight have as much chance of a premature death as those who are heavy smokers - and the danger is even more prevalent for very fat or obese youngsters.

Teenagers who are deemed to be clinically obese are at a similar risk of an early death as people who puff on more than [...]

Kosovo may have a bitter conflict ridden past, but only a year after gaining independence, the state is flourishing as they embark on a new era of wine producing, with their first export to the UK.
Kosovo adds to a long line of previously small and unknown countries that are enjoying success with UK sales. Last [...]

Scientists have announced that there may be a cure for sufferers of peanut allergies after promising results from an innovative new desensitisation programme. Children who previously could have suffered a fatal blow of anaphylatic shock from eating just one peanut have now been treated for the allergy and can eat peanuts without concern.

The discovery could [...]

President Sarkozy and his French Government have made a recent and rather unpopular announcement of a new campaign that advises the French people to do the unthinkable - stop drinking wine.

The Ministry of Health has outraged the drinks industry and many die-hard vino fans alike when they chose to target alcohol as the biggest offender [...]

The Alba white truffle association - a group based in a region of Italy where truffle production is rife - are fighting to honour the truffle’s good name as a law suit involving a hefty restaurant bill hits the courts.

The dispute came about after a high flying business man took five guests out to dinner [...]

An investigation into the way mothers are breastfeeding is under way as doctors have voiced concerns over babies becoming unwell due to their lack of milk intake.

The research will involve a recording of all the babies in the UK and Ireland that are diagnosed with severe hypernatraemic dehydration - an uncommon but very dangerous illness [...]

Today, there will be a confirmation of the first incidence of a person being infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) that was contracted from contaminated blood plasma.

The man in question was elderly and died from unrelated causes. He was infected with the human form of mad cow disease after having a blood transfusion some years [...]

Public health specialists have today asked the medical community to be on the lookout for a re-occurring bout of Scarlet fever - a disease responsible for thousands of deaths in the 19th century.

In 2008, England and Wales recorded as many as 3,000 incidents of the disease - the largest amount in ten years.
The Health Protection [...]