Abdominal fat, the spare tire that many of us carry, has long been implicated as a primary suspect in causing the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and changes in cholesterol.

A future flu pandemic may be fought by using the blood of those who have survived it. In the great flu of 1918, some doctors transfused the blood of survivors to those newly infected with the disease — and there is evidence that this halved the death rate.

BREAST cancer survivors can take heart from the benefits of the Iyengar method of yoga.

It not only promotes psychological wellbeing, but seems to offer immune system benefits as well, US research suggests.