A fresh perspective after a traumatic injury.
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How simple positive psychology methods combined with traditional therapy can make all the difference.
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The shame of incontinence and why no one wants to talk about it.
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Critical standards of evidence must be met to merit the WHO’s new diagnostic category for addicted gamers.
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Does the heart really have cockles or heartstrings? An anatomist clears up some misconceptions…and lends credence to others.
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The panic about British children reaching puberty younger is unwarranted. Medieval skeletons provide a different answer.
Conditioning for the cold.
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Techniques and technology can help athletes perform at their best even in freezing temperatures.
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LSD is far safer than alcohol or tobacco, so why don’t drug laws reflect it?
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The sugar tax relies on creating a price difference between high- and low-sugar drinks, but this could be cancelled out by bundled offers, such as fixed-price meal deals.
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Policymakers need to stop focusing on schools to solve the obesity crisis.
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It’s the housing sector that could do most for winter health.
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ATMs, self-scan checkouts, automated calls, digital therapists … no wonder we’re all lonely.
Care – with charges.
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The British government plans to double its annual charge for migrants to use the NHS.
Chemotherapy.
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Scientists may have discovered why cancer incidence rises with age, and it’s got more to do with the immune system than people thought.
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If England eliminates hepatitis C, it will be the first country to do so. But how feasible is it?
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Wales’s intimate piercing ban takes away bodily autonomy for under 18s.
End of life care isn’t just about dying, it’s about living too.
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Half of all patients diagnosed with cancer in the UK still die of the disease.
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Suppressing thoughts about cigarettes, alcohol and chocolate are only going to make you crave them more.
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Increasing the public’s awareness of mental health issues rings hollow when vital services are crumbling.
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Diets aren’t just about losing weight. There are other things to consider.
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Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
Compulsive spending or shopping is considered an impulse control disorder.
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Compulsive spending is on the rise, here’s what you need to know.
Baroness Tessa Jowell speaking in the House of Lords.
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There are several things we can do to speed up the development of new drugs, without putting patients at risk.
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Current cholesterol tests in the UK are outdated and are putting lives at risk.
Padman starring Akshay Kumar.
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A new Bollywood movie based on the story of an Indian entrepreneur who created affordable sanitary pads is helping to counter myths and taboos around menstruation.
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Scientists are beginning to understand why certain drugs and musical genres are natural partners.