Patrick Swayze is looking remarkably well for someone who is supposed to be dead.

The Dirty Dancer was given only five weeks to live by doctors when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March.

But seemingly nothing really can put Patrick Swayze in the corner as he was pictured at LA Airport yesterday looking like he Cheshire cat that got the cream.

There are several ways to realise that Britney Spears has been in a bad way lately - one of them is to have eyes and/or ears.

Another way is to read the news. You see, Britney Spears turned up at a charity party at Jim Carrey’s house last weekend not looking as if she’d spent the last month wide awake and screaming at the ceiling. And that’s a news story, apparently.

Stressed out about giving a best man’s speech or speaking in front of your bosses?

Well, forget practising your lines or drinking beforehand to steady your nerves, the best way to prepare for a bit of public speaking is to have sex.

Need another excuse to drink tea? I didn’t think so.

But just in case you did, apparently just two cups of tea a day could reduce your chances of dementia.

Meat-fans’ favourite diet, Atkins, may be just as effective and safe as a low-fat diet, despite all the other surveys and the founder dying a bloated man.

This latest research comes from a study of 322 overweight volunteers, carried out by boffins from Israel, America and Germany.

The volunteers lost weight on all diets tried, including Atkins (low-carbohydrate), low-fat and Mediterranean diet.

The low-carb diet was the most effective.

A vaccine for two deadly hospital superbugs should be available within 10 years.

That’s according to Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, who said in his 2007 Annual Report this week that a vaccine for C difficile is possible within five years, while a jab to protect against MRSA will be ready by the year 2018.

Women who like to eat flame-grilled food are more likely to get breast cancer than those who don’t.

That’s according to a new study, which found that ladies who feast on flame-grilled foods more than twice a month were 74% more likely to develop the disease.

Is having a C-section really a laughing matter? Well, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie certainly thought so this week during the birth of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

She was happy to chat and joke with partner Brad Pitt throughout the birth at Lenval Hospital on the French Riviera.

Amy Winehouse used to be a healthy, fit woman, whose only ghastly features were the tattoos that made her look like some sort of burly transvestite sailor.

However, heavy drinking and smoking have alarmingly taken their toll over the last year, making her thinner, sicker and a bit more violent.

Oh, and there’s the drugs. You can’t forget about the drugs. Anyway, all of this combined might be about to kill her, her dad Mitch says. Who’d have guessed?

Okay, this is a weird one but it’s true, and it’s actually very sad - so no Amy Winehouse jokes for once.

Andrew Thornton, 44, drank over 17 pints of cold water to relieve his painful gums, but instead overloaded his body and died.

An inquest heard that he had been drinking water at this rate for the previous two days as well.

Giving up drinking is bad for you.

No, we are not talking about the effect it can have on your social life. Although it was the only thing holding me back from knocking booze on the head.

We are actually talking about your health. Hooray!! Honest, scientists say so and everything. In the most poinstless waste of money since the last one, they’ve even done a recent study on it in America.