Swiss scientists have discovered that the ancient herbal remedy butterbur is a highly effective treatment for hayfever. It may also help with colds and asthma.

A chance discovery by a family doctor is giving hope to families of coma patients by waking some up - with a sleeping pill. Newsmonster investigates.

If you want to lose weight permanently don’t go on a diet, says Dr Danny Penman, author of the No Diet Diet. The best thing you can do is break the hidden habits that keep you fat.

What’s it like to break your knee and leg in 12 places and have the resulting wreckage held together with the latest high-tech surgical gadgetry? Newsmonster’s Danny Penman flew into the side of a mountain and found out….. 

Newsmonster recently reported how a sleeping pill was waking coma patients. Now doctors have been amazed at its effects on some stroke victims.

Sunbathing is far from the risky activity the 'health industry' claims it to be. It's actually good for you and helps prevent cancer, multiple sclerosis and a host of other diseases. Vitamin D, produced by the body with the help of sunlight, plays an important part in preventing several cancers including melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. First appeared in the Independent newspaper.

Every dieter knows the signs. The gnawing hunger, a banging headache, the depression, the wild swings of mood and energy (not to mention the intractable constipation)….. Dieting isn’t just a thoroughly miserable thing to do it is also the least effective means you can think of for controlling weight with the possible exception of the deep-fried Mars bar.... Thankfully there is an alternative way of losing weight.

Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected - men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face. The slightest glimpse of a pretty woman is enough to completely destroy a man's ability to make rational decisions.....