Shutterstock
The flat screened babysitter is part of growing up.
Shutterstock/icsnaps
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.
What we eat, how much and how often changes over our lives.
milsamil/Shutterstock
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
Shutterstock
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.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in the world.
Julio C. Valencia, NCI Center for Cancer Research
Synthetic biology allows us to engineer biological cells. This could help us tackle cancer in remarkable ways.
William Perugin/Shutterstock.com
The number of teetotallers in Britain is rising. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the population has a healthy relationship with alcohol.
Shutterstock/Seventyfour
It’s time to challenge the taken-for-granted use of forceful holding by using creative methods to prepare children for health procedures..
Caring for a friend or family member can be highly challenging.
Shutterstock
The UK has one of the most developed palliative care services in the world, yet people still miss out.
sportpoint/Shutterstock.com
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.
Shutterstock
We need a radical solution to clean up doping in elite sport.
Prostate cancer cell, viewed with a scanning electron microscope.
royaltystockphoto.com/Shutterstock.com
Cancer doesn’t just grow uncontrollably. It has a smarter strategy than that.
Lucky Business/Shutterstock.com
Paradoxically, people who know the real causes of cancer are also the most likely to believe in mythical causes of it.
ra2studio/Shutterstock
By focusing on one nerve, researchers have found a way to vastly improve chronic patients’ health and wellbeing.
Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock.com
Contrary to popular perception, women don’t freeze their eggs for career reasons.
Shutterstock/NilaNewsom
India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority needs to get a grip of unproven claims about the health benefits of certain products.
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com
Being more caring could lead to more female doctors burning out.
Shutterstock
A California judge ruled coffee should carry a cancer warning label but the evidence says something very different.
MSPhotographic/Shutterstock.com
A new study in rats adds to the evidence that artificial sweeteners may be bad for your health.
Rheumatoid arthritis.
Hriana/Shutterstock
The risk of heart attack and stroke is increased for women with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, and for men with psoriasis.
MarinaP/Shutterstock
The after effects of brain injury can turn lives upside down.
s0urav_diaz/Shutterstock.com
The problem of antimicrobial resistance won’t go away as long as people in poor countries don’t have access to clean water.
Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com
Official advice to prediabetics on the best diet to avoid type 2 diabetes suggests that there is only one option. The latest research suggests otherwise.
Bikeworldtravel/Shutterstock.com
Health researchers fact check the idea that running a marathon suppresses your immune system.
Shutterstock
The condition is nothing short of a public health emergency.