According to Lori Brotto, a Canadian psychologist who specializes in sexual health, 80% of women and 60% of men diagnosed with cancer, witness sexual difficulties. Dealing with the diagnosis of cancer, working through treatments and embarking on recovery, mans at the end of the day cancer patients often find they have problems with having sex, problems which if left untreated and impact patients and their relationships significantly.

Six months after Thailand was declared free of the deadly bird flu virus, Thailand's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fresh bird flu outbreak on a backyard farm in the north.

Two hundred and seventy birds were slaughtered in Sukhothai province after the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was found in a dead chicken, though there are not reports of any people sick from it. Investigations are underway to determine whether the outbreak was caused in Thailand or had its origin in a neighbouring country.

A new study by Canadian researchers conducted on 31-asthmatic children, half of whom were from poor backgrounds and the other half from wealthy background suggests that living in poverty can alter your genetic makeup. The study findings reveal, genes responsible for controlling inflammatory responses in the body, as a reaction to infection or disease, tend to be severe in asthmatic children from disadvantaged backgrounds, as compared to those from more privileged backgrounds.

A new study conducted on more than 1,255 men and women patients with high blood pressure, aged between 33 to 97-years, with 70 as the average age; suggests that subjects who did not get the standard 7.5-hours of sleep and, witnessed elevated levels of blood pressure on falling asleep, were four times as likely to suffer a stroke, fatal or non-fatal heart attack or die suddenly of cardiac arrest. They had a 68% higher risk of any one of these cardiovascular complications, compared to their better-rested counterparts.

Scientists in the US examined brain scans of bullies and non bullies and found them to differ in their response to scenes of pain.  The researchers found the area associated with reward was stimulated when violent teenagers were shown pictures of people inflicting pain on others which is contrary to current thinking that aggressive teens lack the ability to empathize with people in pain and that their violent behavior could be innate as well as learnt.

Researchers have found that breast fed babies could have stronger lungs that last well into their childhood from the sheer physical effort involved in sucking milk while breast feeding. They found that children who had been breast fed for a minimum of four months had stronger lung function in later childhood.