Pupil 'out to lunch' diet concern

Drink-fuelled attacks alarm A&E
Reseachers at a hospital casualty unit say the proportion of facial injuries related to alcohol has doubled in 10 years.

Web searches feed health fears
Health information online is breeding a generation of cyberchondriacs, say researchers.

Papua mulls chips for HIV victims
Papua province in Indonesia mulls the introduction of a law allowing microchips to be implanted in people living with HIV.

'No water' in cholera-hit Harare
Much of Zimbabwe's capital Harare is without water reportedly due to a lack of purification chemicals, during a cholera outbreak.

Group therapy 'beats depression'
Group-taught meditation is as effective as medication for stopping people slipping back into depression, say scientists.