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Coffee drinkers will be clinking mugs in a toast to new research suggesting that just two strong cups of the black stuff a day can reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Dr Gary Arendash of the University of Florida showed that coffee not only helped[...]

The temptation to prop the nipper in front of Teletubbies and finally read Saturday's Family section on Wednesday is both understandable and, if the alternative is screaming at the little lovely out of exhaustion, probably preferable. But the truth is[...]

From the day I was born I have never smiled. As a child I don't think I ever questioned it. It sounds bizarre, but I never acknowledged that it was a physical impossibility. The first time the seriousness of it really hit me was when I was in my teens.[...]

It could be a taste of the future for job interviews and the beginning of the end for curmudgeonly work colleagues.

Haemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels around your anus and inside your back passage (rectum). They're sometimes called piles. We don't know exactly what causes haemorrhoids. Experts think they occur when the small blood vessels (veins) in the lining[...]

My son Luca was about three days old when the pretty nurse left a white slip of paper on my hospital bed. "What's this?" I said, confused, sitting up from the chair where I was struggling to breastfeed. The nurse smiled seductively and lowered her voice.[...]

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Willie is now 52, and since his sentence was commuted he has been allowed to work. He is highly respected - he has survived the row and that makes him a rarity. We still write and, after 20 years, I'm still struck by the friendship that's grown between[...]

Men in their 50s who increase their exercise regime live more than two years longer than couch potatoes of the same age, a new study shows. Males in their middle years who do a lot of physical activity, equivalent to three hours a week of sport or heavy[...]