Berlin (dpa) - Visual and audible alarms which warn motorists if they are too fatigued to continue driving can actually encourage drivers to stay at the wheel longer, says a doctor in the German capital Berlin. According to psychologist Katja Karrer-Gauss from the Technical University (TU), such tiredness-alert systems can be deceptive. "If such a system suggests a feeling of safety, people are generally...

A strain of bacteria has been discovered that can infect mosquitoes and make the insects resistant to the malaria parasite. In the study, in the journal Science, researchers showed the parasite struggled to survive in infected mosquitoes. Since malaria is spread between people by the insects, it is hoped that giving mosquitoes malaria immunity could reduce human cases and experts claim this was a first,...

Paris (dpa) - Three suspected cases of the SARS-like coronavirus have been discovered in northern France, health authorities said Friday after confirming the country's first case of the deadly respiratory infection this week. The three cases were believed to be linked to that of a 65-year-old man, who was hospitalized last month after a visit to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The health ministry confirmed...

Paris (dpa) - France has recorded its first case of coronavirus, a deadly respiratory infection related to SARS, the French health ministry said Wednesday. The patient returned to France from a visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was placed in intensive care in an isolation ward, the ministry said. The human coronavirus, or hCoV, was first discovered in 2012 in a man in Saudi Arabia....

A leading health organisation claims that there are "alarming variations" in the number of people with asthma admitted to hospital in an emergency depending on where they live. For instance, figures for 2010-11 in England show the admission rate for children in Liverpool was 19 times higher than in the London area of Tower Hamlets. Bosses at Asthma UK allege that good care and management of the condition...