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Dancing, drumming, visiting galleries and so on are one of the best ways of enhancing public health.
How a price-hiking “meat tax” could prevent 220,000 deaths and save more than US$40 billion in health care costs around the world every year.
Medical advances were the only positive things to come out of the Great War.
Researchers have developed a new profile system that can save time and money and drastically improve patient care.
Knowing what your attachment style is can help you navigate life’s ups and downs a bit better.
Is tonsillectomy modern-day bloodletting?
Eating meat damages the environment and has been linked with higher risk of disease, but you don’t have to go vegan to make a difference to your health and the planet.
Stressful events can permanently damage your heart and increase your risk of death. Scientists have been discovering more about it.
A first look at data on sport injuries in children in England, and it’s not a pretty picture.
Study finds changes to gut microbiome begin as soon as migrants move to the US and continue to change over decades.
It can be tough at the top for football managers.
In the near future, your doctor might prescribe electricity for what ails you.
Modern healthcare may be helping us live longer, but hunter-gatherers point to a less expensive option.
Art is no cure all. But it can open up new spaces for us to ask new questions.
New study finds association between how gender equal a country is and how many children die before they reach age five.
A new machine-learning algorithm does more with less.
The fallout from childhood cancer is much wider than just the patient and their parents.
Exposure to the sun every other day produces more skin pigment than sunbathing every day – but protection is still vital.
Stillbirths affect many women but the science of finding out which pregnancies are at risk hasn’t moved on as much as you would think.
New research suggests people who eat organic plant foods have a reduction in risk of common cancers.
Radula liverwort shares an intriguing similarity to cannabis – researchers are working out what it does to the brain.
Many will switch to less healthy diets as imported food becomes more expensive, says new research.
Practical tips to get you through your breastfeeding challenges.
When it comes to treating cancer, focus for decades has been on killing the fastest growing cells. New research finds that this approach may be too simple.