Cancer risk drops for pescatarians

Dropping red meat and sticking to a plant-based diet that incorporates fish may be the key to preventing colorectal cancers, according to a seven-year study published Monday. Pescetarians, as they are commonly referred, had a 43 percent lower chance of getting the...

MPs to vote on cigarette packaging

Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said the regulations would bring the country “one step closer to our first smoke-free generation” Powers for standardising packaging were in the Children and Families Act 2014, but the Commons must approve bringing them...

Affordable Care Act attracts more Americans

The Affordable Care Act’s second enrollment period, which ended in February for most Americans, went far more smoothly than the first, which was marred by technical trouble at the kickoff. Nearly 11.7 million people have signed up for health insurance for 2015...