According to a newly launched exercise calculator you'll need to go for a half-hour brisk walk if you want to work off the calories from a standard 330ml can of coke.

Georgie Smith claims she feared for her life after swallowing her toothbrush whole. The 19-year-old student is said to have no gag reflex.

As winter approaches many people take to drying their clothes indoors. But the action could be causing health problems, especially to those prone to asthma and allergies, say Glasgow researchers.

Guitar teacher Martin Reed, from Herne Bay in Kent, said a brain tumour that almost killed him may have been caused by his music playing.

Marlene Barnes, 72, started chewing chippings after 48 years with the bowel condition Crohn's disease. A decade on, her doctor says she has no trace of the illness in her system.

Engaged Shannon Barclay, from Aberdeen, finally decided to lose weight after she couldn't fit into a plane seat in February. As the weight dropped off she had her wedding dress taken in several times.

The world's first tumour profiler, as it is known, will allow doctors, nurses and pharmacists to quickly identify all known types of cancer while the patient waits.

Doctors claim ipilimumab and vemurafenib are the first major advance in treatment for 30 years because they increase survival for patients with advanced disease.

Rustie's mother Eugenie Edwards was given just 48 hours to live when admitted to hospital and denied food, liquid and painkillers. The family contested the decision and the 87-year-old has since been discharged.

It is well-known that redheads and others with fair skin have a higher risk of developing skin cancer, because they have less natural protection against the damaging effect of the sun.

Ava Mae Charlton was born by emergency caesarean section but she struggled to breathe and died after only 32 minutes.

Clare Greasly, from Manchester, claims these are the only two foods she can stomach. The once healthy mother has lost more than four stone due to the bizarre condition.

Salih Saruhan, from Kent, gets itchy eyes and a bunged up nose whenever he cuts hair - and it gets worse the curlier the locks.

Over the last year the number of people being diagnosed with depression has risen to 5.1million, up from 4.9million over the course of the previous year.

Given early enough, the pill known as LMTX, could stop Alzheimer's from ever developing, according to scientists from Aberdeen University.

People who ate two to four servings a week had a 6 per cent lower risk of stroke compared with those who consumed one or less, an international study has found.

Women who drank green tea at least three times a week were 14 per cent less likely to develop a cancer of the digestive system, according to a report report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

For most patients the GP is their first port of call when they fall ill. But a survey of British adults has revealed one in three think their local doctors are now so busy that they could be misdiagnosed.

Children often learn to count to ten using their fingers or toes, but that wouldn't help Arpan Saxena from Bhopal, India, who has 25 digits.

Women who did a practice run before they started cutting back on calories were better at keeping the pounds off, Stanford University researchers found.

Men who had a workout before breakfast lost more fat than those who did so after the first meal of the day, scientists from the University of Glasgow found.

Children under 10 had much slower weight gain than teenagers who changed their diet and exercise regimens, Swedish research from the Karolinska Institutet found.