Babies born by Caesarean section have a greater risk of developing type-1 diabetes than those who are born via normal deliveries, UK research suggests.

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast examined data from 20 published studies on children with type-1 diabetes who were born by caesarean. The results found that that babies born by caesarean had a 20 per cent higher risk of diabetes compared with babies born by natural birth. The normal risk of a baby developing type 1 diabetes is three in 1,000

Breastfeeding for at least six months may help reduce a woman's risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer, new study has found.

That finding, which comes from a new study published in Monday's advance online edition of Cancer, is based on two breast cancer studies that together included nearly 2,500 women aged 55-79 in Washington state. The group included 1,140 women who had had breast cancer

Studies keeping track of the progress of two patients who had face transplants show the surgeries had positive results, with one of them managing a smile and a blink.

The Lancet journal reported operations involving a bear attack victim in China, and a French patient with a severely disfiguring tumor. The Chinese patient was given not just the lip, nose, skin and muscle from a donor, but even some facial bone

Women who suffered from preeclampsia, which produces high blood pressure during pregnancy, are at a greater risk of developing end-stage renal disease (ESRD), new studies have found.

Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine, and swelling, as well as more serious problems, according to the National Institutes of Health

- The controversial plastic used in baby bottles, water bottles, and to line food cans, Bisphenol-A, has been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

Concern over the effects of the plastic, especially on the very young and old, have caused a bit of a backlash against products that use BPA since U.S. government scientists at the National Toxicology Program (NTP) voiced "some" concern about they synthetic material's possible effects, which they said could include accelerated female puberty, as well as having negative effects on the mammary and prostate glands