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As well as increasing physical fitness and mental health, martial arts can boost brain cognition too.
Working out in a dilapidated gym can yield more benefits than working out in a fancy gym. But it depends on your preferences.
The right diet, combined with moderate low-impact exercise, can benefit people with osteoarthritis.
The FDA recently issued a draft guidance for testing drugs in pregnant women. Here’s why it’s a good thing.
The days when health messages focus only on exercise that gets us out of breath could be coming to an end.
The flat screened babysitter is part of growing up.
Our new study has found that people who suffer from severe mental illness are at a much higher risk of dying from preventable diseases and conditions.
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
Folic acid in pregnancy – and the gene which explains why the benefits may differ.
Vitamin D could help the 20m children worldwide who suffer from acute, severe malnutrition.
Synthetic biology allows us to engineer biological cells. This could help us tackle cancer in remarkable ways.
The number of teetotallers in Britain is rising. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the population has a healthy relationship with alcohol.
It’s time to challenge the taken-for-granted use of forceful holding by using creative methods to prepare children for health procedures..
The UK has one of the most developed palliative care services in the world, yet people still miss out.
You’re more likely to know a word but not be able to produce it as you get older. Keeping fit could minimise these lapses.
We need a radical solution to clean up doping in elite sport.
Cancer doesn’t just grow uncontrollably. It has a smarter strategy than that.
Paradoxically, people who know the real causes of cancer are also the most likely to believe in mythical causes of it.
By focusing on one nerve, researchers have found a way to vastly improve chronic patients’ health and wellbeing.
Contrary to popular perception, women don’t freeze their eggs for career reasons.
India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority needs to get a grip of unproven claims about the health benefits of certain products.
Being more caring could lead to more female doctors burning out.
A California judge ruled coffee should carry a cancer warning label but the evidence says something very different.
A new study in rats adds to the evidence that artificial sweeteners may be bad for your health.