Overweight women are more likely to miscarry healthy foetuses

Being overweight or obese increases a pregnant woman's chances of losing a baby that has no chromosomal abnormalities

Researchers find no link between IVF and breast cancer

Large study will help to reassure patients concerned that powerful hormone doses might put them at risk

Results from a large study reassure women that having fertility treatment will not increase their risk of developing breast cancer

Richard Smith: Rather than asking the NHS to shell out for a patented statin, those who want them should be offered combination pills

Trials to begin for treatment that uses patient's own cells engineered to fight off disease

New treatment involves engineering patient's own immune system to fight virus more effectively

Fresh medical research suggests the serious mental illness may be due to nature, not nurture

Sons of mothers who enjoy one to two units a week behave better and score higher in tests

The so-called 'andropause' has also been linked to diabetes and obesity

Search giant to fund research aimed at detecting and preventing virulent new diseases