Giving aspirin to healthy patients can do more harm than good, raising the risk of dangerous stomach bleeding while having a 'negligible' effect on curbing death rates.

The study found new mothers had the most questions about their developing baby at five months. The initial flurry of visits from friends had also subsided.

In our health quiz this week, pop music mogul Pete Waterman, 62, talks about his love of chips, his own male menopause and the illness that could have caused him to go blind.

Adults acne is a growing problem. Occurring mostly in women, one recent study estimated that 14 per cent of those aged between 26 and 44 in the UK suffer from acne.

Dr Martin Scurr has been treating patients for more than 30 years and is one of the country's leading GPs. Here he tackles the swine flu jab and urine leaks.

He is renowned for his ruthless streak, but Simon Cowell showed his more generous side yesterday when he gave £100,000 to a cancer-stricken youngster.

Girls at six secondary schools in Oxfordshire have been able to text requests for emergency contraception if they have had unprotected sex, or if they fear condoms have failed.

Swine flu is putting hospitals under increasing pressure, the Government's chief medical officer warned.

Every adult in the UK should be legally required to decide whether they want to donate their organs after death, according to the Royal College of Physicians.

Department of Health figures show that 166 girls of that age had terminations last year compared with 135 in 2006.

Those who regularly eat processed meals are almost 60 per cent more likely to suffer depression than those who choose fruit, vegetables and fish.

Guidance on breast cancer screening is being rewritten after a study found thousands of women were having unnecessary surgery.

Diet fizzy drinks may damage the kidneys, a study suggests.

229 Test match wickets, the Yorkshire captaincy and a Strictly Come Dancing crown... the sporting hero on how to rise above a condition afflicting five million Britons.

Patricia Fawcett needed a magnifying glass to read and was told to stop driving. But thanks to a new surgical procedure she can see almost perfectly again.

When businesswoman Sarah Cound booked a breast reduction operation at the prestigious address, it was the start of a horrific ten-year ordeal.

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img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/08/article-0-0435FE090000044D-281_87x84.jpg" width="87" height="84" /br/Record numbers of adults are being treated for drug addiction, with a total of 207,580 adults seeking treatment in the last year.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailymail/health/~4/LUppWPRI21Q" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/07/article-0-0619E0AB000005DC-997_87x84.jpg" width="87" height="84" /br/Surgeons are using stem cells and liposuction to replace missing breast tissue after a cancerous lump has been removed.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailymail/health/~4/aXNeCILIdSw" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/07/article-0-052BEFE4000005DC-939_87x84.jpg" width="87" height="84" /br/The drug, the first new medicine for rheumatoid arthritis for ten years, helps patients with moderate to severe disease who have not responded to other therapy.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailymail/health/~4/Av5H7-sdr0I" height="1" width="1"/