The French government is preparing to legislate for a 5-meter or 10-meter pesticide-free buffer zone around housing areas.

A new study of New York City firefighters has found that exposure to 9/11 World Trade Center dust is associated with a significantly increased long-term risk of cardiovascular disease.

Experts are warning about the dangers of "fussy eating" after a 17-year-old teenager in the UK suffered irreparable sight loss after living on a diet of potato chips and French fries.

Researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing at Trinity College Dublin have shown that lower levels of specific dietary vitamins and antioxidants are associated with frailty.

Vitamin D deficiency in middle childhood could result in aggressive behavior as well as anxious and depressive moods during adolescence, according to a new University of Michigan study of school children in Bogotá, Colombia.

The so-called ‘Pernkopf Topographic Anatomy of Man’, whose findings and illustrations came from the dissected bodies of people killed by the Nazis, is still used by surgeons today.

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