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One in four people experience a mental health problem in any give year.
Everything you need to know about the humble spud.
A lack of sleep is a problem for children with ADHD and their parents. New research has an uplifting message for both.
In the battle against superbugs, you’d be amazed where we might find the cures of the future.
Five popular activities rated for their restorative power.
147m people used the drug last year. We need to know much more about it.
Men and women experience autism differently, which shows something revealing about where autistic characteristics may come from.
Is there anything wrong with breastfeeding children up to five or six?
New studies show that athletes don’t need to lift heavy weights to gain power.
Dozens of factors are at play.
What science can tell us about ageing and strength.
Research that finds links between genes and intelligence could worsen social inequality.
Medical literature is full of stories of people who have operated on themselves. Surprisingly, some lived to tell the tale.
Researchers at a fertility clinic in Athens appear to have reversed the menopause in a small group of women – but will the science stand up to scrutiny?
Action on Sugar doesn’t think much of David Cameron’s childhood obesity strategy, but will May do any better?
Weighing up the costs and benefits in a dangerous world.
You may have to blame your ancestors…
Around 15,000 Parisians died in the August 2003 heatwave. So what lessons have been learned?
If the government wants people to be healthy, they’re going to need to make varied diets more affordable.
Our success as a species is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration.
Many women across the world feel unable to refuse sex or request condom use. Empowering them could help bring down HIV rates.
You gotta have guts to succeed at Rio 2016 – and very healthy ones, at that.
Genes are important in predicting the risk of myopia, but they alone cannot explain the epidemic.
Some 85% of research into drugs and treatments ends up on the cutting room floor but not all of that should.