A nasal spray can make men more in tune with other people’s feelings and boosts their ability to learn, say researchers. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. View full...

Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source. A team at the University of Texas says a substance similar to capsaicin, which makes chilli peppers hot, is found in the human body at sites of pain. And blocking the production...

Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory – as long as you dream, scientists say. They found people who dream about a new task perform it better on waking than those who do not sleep or do not dream. Volunteers were asked to learn the layout of a 3D...

Ken Riddington was a gifted TV producer who won a raft of awards and nominations for his work on series like Tenko, House Of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice. He loved TV, only retiring from his work at the BBC at the age of 75. But three years ago he started to suffer from severe dementia...

Greater use of hypnotherapy to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome would help sufferers and might save money, says a gastroenterologist. Dr Roland Valori, editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, said of the first 100 of his patients treated, symptoms improved significantly for nine in...