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The World Bank is giving $160 billion to help bolster the world’s weaker health systems – but it needs to do more.
There is abundant evidence that a sudden loss of smell is related to COVID-19.
We all have white and brown fat cells – but recent research shows there’s a third type, called “beige” cells.
National models on the spread of COVID-19 have helped us through this crisis. But we’ll need local models to get us through the next stage.
Why we should free children from the deadening tyranny of being driven everywhere.
Why did a fit, healthy man have so many blood clots in rapid succession, despite blood-thinning treatment?
Instagram remains a key marketing platform for tobacco companies.
At-home electrical ‘therapies’, hormone treatments, and skin ‘foods’ were just some of the popular treatments people used to look and feel younger.
COVID-19 is much more than just a medical emergency.
We don’t have vaccines for the Sars, Mers or the common cold. But that doesn’t mean scientists won’t crack it this time.
We’re full of blood – around five litres, on average.
The UK government is allowing care homes and hospices to reuse leftover medicines during the pandemic. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
A molecule responsible for lowering our blood pressure also helps coronavirus get into our cells and replicate. And it occurs more in men than in women.
Foods rich in flavonoids (such as apples, berries, or tea) are important for cognitive health, research suggests.
Many patients with COVID-19 are suffering, unnecessarily.
A century old therapy is being tested on patients with COVID-19.
Figuring out how the immune system responds to and defeats coronavirus is our best way out of the pandemic.
A simple head-to-head trial would resolve this conflict once and for all.
Coronavirus is hitting some communities harder than others. But a lack of very basic data categorisation means it’s difficult for the UK government to tailor its response.
If you think the global south is fairing well during the pandemic, you haven’t been paying attention.
Safety measures put in place to protect older people from contracting COVID-19 may also be placing them at greater risk of experiencing abuse.
Lockdown requires that we all act as if we know nothing, even if we are world experts on disease transmission.
Sexually active men should consider wearing condoms during the pandemic.
COVID-19 can attack your gastrointestinal tract, and those with symptoms such as diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting may have a worse version of the disease.