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Villanelle may be a psychopath, but she doesn’t represent most psychopaths.
Smelling odours that aren’t there can be annoying. It can also be a sign of a serious underlying condition.
A bioengineer collaborates with artists, clinicians and patients to come up with an art exhibition with heart.
Allison and Honjo discovered how inhibiting the brakes in our immune systems can be used to treat cancer.
The continued prevalence of fat stigma and shaming needs to be challenged.
Trials for new Alzheimer’s drugs have been failing a lot, lately. But it may be premature to abandon these drugs altogether.
Patients undergoing chemotherapy are at particular risk from food poisoning - but they aren’t being made aware how critical food safety is at home.
If the UK is to break the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition.
What a group of ancient Roman philosophers can teach you about how to live in the 21st century.
Some people can will themselves to death. Here are the five stages.
Crash dieting is both safe and effective. So why isn’t it available on the NHS?
The Mediterranean diet is not only good for your heart. It could protect your mental health, too.
Biohacking for cures: what you need to know.
An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it’s like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
Stepfathers are less likely to kill their children than previous researchers have claimed.
NHS Wales staff have been using their expertise and experience to suggest new ways of working.
Evidence-based medicine is in turmoil after the much respected Cochrane Collaboration booted out one of its co-founders.
From black coffee to a hair of the dog – here’s the science behind popular hangover remedies.
A 17-year-long study finds that a Mediterranean-style diet reduces stroke risk in women by more than a fifth.
Low level carbon monoxide poisoning leads to a wide range of nonspecific but significant symptoms – making it very difficult to detect.
TV shows that don’t provide an accurate portrayal of eating disorders do a disservice to their viewers.
We’ve got better at managing the health risks of traditional drugs of abuse, but novel psychoactive substances, or ‘legal highs’, are a dangerous unknown.
Science shows that this simple mindfulness technique improves concentration and working memory.
Is yogurt as healthy as you think?