Eating celery regularly can control high blood pressurewithout the use of drugs according to China's HunanHemotological Research Center.Celery contains a naturally occurring chemical called"apigenin" which has been shown to dilate the blood vesselsand contribute to preventing high blood pressure. Celeryalso

A TECHNIQUE involving self-hypnosis is to be taught to midwives in Scotland to help women to ease the pain of childbirth.

LOW-dose aspirin, taken routinely by Americans over 45, is likely to do more harm than good unless used in carefully selected patients, an Australian study concludes.

for workers at risk of being burned. The bank will store sheets of skin cultivated from the hair follicles of high-risk workers.

UP TO 50 patients may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) following brain surgery during the 1980s, it emerged yesterday.

THE popularity of private medical insurance (PMI) has fallen for the first time since 1995, new figures have shown.

THOSE who have been through something as tortuous and tedious as back-pain all tend to say the same thing; you get to the point where you'll try anything just to make it go away.

HUNDREDS of hillwalkers and rural workers have been struck down by disease caused by ticks, which attack humans as well as animals.

An allocation process based on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease rather than clinical judgment would significantly alter organ allocation and may reduce waiting list mortality, finds the latest issue of Liver Transplantation.

Infant vernier acuity is not as immature as previous research has indicated according to a study published in March in the Journal of Vision, an online, free access publication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The

Military textile fabric treated with an antimicrobial compound can kill dormant anthrax spores and could provide the basis for enhancing military protection in the event of a biological attack. Scientists from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (Aberdeen Proving Ground,

While lithium treatment has proven to be a godsend for many of the two million Americans with bipolar disorder, it is not without its downside. People on the drug may develop hypothyroidism, tremors, cognitive impairment, and excessive thirst and urination