HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Training influential students to spread anti-smoking messages in their everyday conversations with peers helps reduce smoking rates, according to a U.K. study.

Reuters - Exercise can cause structural changes in the heart, and these changes vary depending on the type of training an athlete is engaged in, new research shows.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- An intensive educational program for physicians and midwives that stresses giving women the drug oxytocin just after a vaginal delivery resulted in significantly fewer cases of excessive bleeding, according to a study done in two South American countries.

Scientists are being discouraged from attending Parliament to show their support for proposed embryology and fertility legislation.

Depressed fathers may hinder their child's language development, US research suggests.

Ministers have sought to allay fears over the forthcoming overhaul of the NHS in England.

Babies born at 23 weeks or earlier are no more likely to survive than they were a decade ago, a study finds.

Funding for HIV prevention is being wasted on strategies which have little impact, say US researchers.