Health Report

Statins. Prolonged sitting. Standing. Patient opinion website.

Suicidal thoughts and behaviour with antidepressant drugs. Transcranial magnetic stimulation. Predictions for development of mood disorder and schizophrenia.

An enormous range of pharmaceuticals, from painkillers to chemotherapy drugs, is entering our rivers and waterways via wastewater. The concentrations are tiny, but drug pollution has had unexpected and at times devastating impacts on plants and animals. Ecotoxicologists and health experts alike are calling for a concerted effort to better understand how pharmaceuticals behave in the natural environment.

Exercise may prevent depression. Autism and the immune system. Vitamin B12 supplementation.

Myths about sleep. Treatment of systolic high blood pressure (hypertension). Resting heart rate.

Bladder cancer. Breast cancer and sexual wellbeing. The value of mammography breast cancer screening.

Scientists in Europe and the US have created a highly transmissible form of the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health on the Council on Foreign Relations, talks about the implications of this research.

Deep brain stimulation surgery: This brain surgery is used for illnesses such as depression and severe obsessive compulsive disorder. It has also been used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. However, according to researchers only 10 to 15% of Parkinson's patients are appropriate candidates for this treatment.

Screening for ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer education campaigns. Ovarian cancer genome.

IVF predictor and long term health issues a pregnancy can have on mothers and their children. Aspirin use for IVF. IVF 'vanishing twin' linked with birth defects.