Male smokers suffer more rapid decline in brain function as they age than women and non-smoking men, new research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests. Smokers'€™ cognition is said to decline at the same rate as a non-smoker 10 years older than themselves.

Last week health officials in the United States urged all boys age 11 to 12 to get a routine vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) '€“ a common sexually transmitted disease linked to various cancers.