A US-based drone delivery service has completed its first month in operation, successfully sending over-the-counter medicines, hot food items and cold beverages to customers' homes using GPS-enabled autonomous flying vehicles.
The more time you spend sitting, the greater the chances of dying from heart disease or cancer, having a stroke or becoming diabetic. Even GPs now advocate standing during consultationsWe spend half our lives sitting ...
This long-term condition causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea and it's on the increase, especially in young people. Yet doctors often fail to recognise it.Miriam Kaltz was 22 when she visited her GP with abdominal ...
YouGov poll for Breast Cancer Care also found that one in 20 women wait over six months after spotting symptoms, with potentially fatal consequences.
Gadgets that monitor fitness are untested, unscientific and can induce extreme anxiety in some people, according to a GP writing in the BMJ.
GPs write millions of prescriptions for this painkiller each year and millions more packets are bought over the counter. It has generally been considered cheap, safe and effective. But should we think harder before we ...