BBC: Women Risk Their Health for Others

Many women risk their own health for the sake of their loved ones, according to research.

Two-thirds of women surveyed by the British Heart Foundation said they were more concerned about the health of family and friends than their own.

And a fifth of the 1,154 respondents said they were not concerned with their own health at all.

Psychologists said this behaviour was likely to be evolutionary to ensure the individual's genes are passed on...