Question: What do you get if you cross a clown with a white coat? Answer: A Giggle Doctor. No it's true!  These funny people in white coats visit the wards of childrens hospitals for one purpose - to make the children laugh. And they usually succeed, for very few   visitors wearing white coats then proceed to blow bubbles and make lights come out of their ears. Laughter has a positive impact on everyone's h ...

This is not a UFO, but a beautiful breast-shaped Beacon that will light up for a brief moment on a hill outside Bath next March to give courage and kinship to those affected by breast cancer. The 'Beacon on the Hill' light show will be captured by a series of images, ensuring that it will continue to be a symbol of hope and unity long after the lights are turned out. Thanks to this computer generated image, ...

It's nearly 100 years since the founding father of the outdoor movement described walking as a cure for all his mind and body: 'I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again' wrote G M Trevelyan i ...

Great news! It is hoped that new research on the spreading power of breast cancer cells will lead to the development of drugs to fight their migration. The cells invade the body by “digging their escape route”, according to research published in the Journal of Cell Biology last week. Scientists at the Cancer Research UK’s Beatson Institute in Glasgow have found that breast cancer cells puncture holes into n ...