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Compounds in your breath could help AI detect illnesses, including different cancers.
These professional entertainers are trained and paid to go round hospitals cheer up children with music and laughter.
A longer life for humans and pets means more challenges for doctors and vets.
Research shows tranquility can help to boost levels of relaxation, reduce stress and even provide pain relief.
What does dementia feel like?
Why are we so shocked when we, or someone we know, becomes ill? It's time to reclaim sickness as a normal part of life.
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
Burnout is a growing problem for the modern workplace. It has an impact on organisational costs, as well as employee health and well-being.
Illness can have a major impact on our view of the world. Sometimes, it can be enlightening.
Health and local employment prospects both play a part in whether older workers stop working.
Children don’t learn much about how illnesses spread if they are just taught a list of dos and don’ts. They need to know why an action is useful.
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Reader in Cancer Care, University of Stirling
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