Young people are risking their lives by indulging in “binge tanning”, a charity has warned.
More than a third of under-25s spend more than five hours a day in the sun on holiday, increasing their chances of developing life-threatening skin cancer, it said.
And many are willing to employ a range of tricks, including using baby oil, [...]

Young people are risking their lives by indulging in “binge tanning”, a charity has warned.
More than a third of under-25s spend more than five hours a day in the sun on holiday, increasing their chances of developing life-threatening skin cancer, it said.
And many are willing to employ a range of tricks, including using baby oil, [...]

Young people are risking their lives by indulging in “binge tanning”, a charity has warned.
More than a third of under-25s spend more than five hours a day in the sun on holiday, increasing their chances of developing life-threatening skin cancer, it said.
And many are willing to employ a range of tricks, including using baby oil, [...]

PARIS (AFP) - New investigations into obesity may identify people with an inherited risk of weight gain, explain why crash diets often fail and address a danger period in childhood that leads to obesity in adult life.
Sifting through the genetic codes of 77,000 people, a British-led international team say they have found culprit variants in [...]

BEIJING (AFP) - The World Health Organisation on Sunday dismissed claims that local authorities in China had covered up the outbreak of an intestinal virus, as the death toll rose to 25.
The virus, known as Enterovirus 71 or EV71, has already killed 22 children in the eastern province of Anhui and three others in southern [...]

SEOUL (AFP) - Bird flu outbreaks have spread to six of South Korea’s nine provinces despite a massive cull which saw the slaughter of more than five million chickens and ducks last month, officials said Saturday.
An outbreak reported Wednesday at a farm around 300 kilometres (187 miles) southeast of Seoul was confirmed after blood tests [...]

BEIJING (AFP) - The death of a child in south China has raised fears that a virus that has already killed 22 is spreading, as authorities called Saturday for better controls of infectious diseases before the Olympics.
The 18-month-old boy died Friday in Foshan city bordering Hong Kong, from what was probably hand, foot and mouth [...]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China ordered authorities on Saturday to tackle hand, foot and mouth disease aggressively ahead of the Beijing Olympics after a rapidly spreading outbreak killed at least 23 children and infected nearly 4,000.
“Our doctors will leave hospitals to find potential patients rather than sitting in the hospitals to wait for them,” deputy health [...]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China ordered authorities across the nation on Saturday to fight hand, foot and mouth disease, after a rapidly spreading outbreak killed at least 23 children and infected nearly 4,000.
“Our doctors will leave hospitals to find potential patients rather than sitting in the hospitals to wait for them,” deputy health minister Liu Qian [...]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China ordered authorities across the nation on Saturday to fight hand, foot and mouth disease, after the death of an 18-month-old boy suggested a virus causing the illness had spread from eastern provinces to the south.
The boy died in the southern province of Guangdong from a suspected case of the disease that [...]