Patients should be offered the chance to listen to music during procedures to reduce pain and anxiety, says a leading surgeon.

Children who routinely eat their meals together with their family are healthier than those who don't, a new study shows. Canadian researchers tracked hundreds of children from five months old to 10 years old.

Nine million adults suffer from damaging loneliness that is as harmful to their health as smoking or obesity, a report said yesterday. It labelled loneliness a ‘social epidemic’ and called for a series of new Government initiatives to lessen...

Energy drinks and junk food damage teenagers' mental health, according to new research. The rate of young people diagnosed with anxiety and depression has rocketed in the last few years, with many pointing to cyber-bullying and media.

Cases of the winter vomiting bug have rocketed by 13 per cent in just a week, official data reveal. Government statistics show 1,475 people have been infected with norovirus since July, compared to 1,294 last week.

From paracetamol to co-codamol, 24 million opioid prescriptions were given out in the UK in 2016, which is double that of just 10 years ago.

It’s official, we don’t sleep enough. A staggering 38 per cent of Britons are not getting enough sleep with women aged 35-44 affected the worst, research revealed last week.

It will come as little surprise to middle-aged people battling the stress of work, elderly parents and teenage children. But those aged 45 to 54 get the worst night’s sleep, managing just over six and a half hours on average.