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Body identity integrity disorder is a strange and very distressing condition. A shift towards treating it as a neuroscientific problem could be the key to a cure.
Sleep is often overlooked as a treatment for brain injury, but new research could be about to change that.
Our knowledge of diseases is growing exponentially, but turning knowledge into cures is proving to be a tricky business.
When the hugging had to stop: life in a post-antibiotic era.
Arguing about the pros and cons of fat in our diet takes the focus away from the real nutritional demon: processed foods.
Understanding how cell signalling goes wrong could lead to the development of precision cancer treatments.
The critics of mindfulness are getting louder. But there are a few good studies pointing to the benefits of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Some patients respond miraculously well to cancer treatment. It is high time we try to understand why.
Legal highs are now illegal in the the UK but why has it taken so long for the law to be changed?
How did jogging go from a Victorian gentleman’s pastime to the most popular form of exercise on the planet?
Drinking booze can have some quite different effects on brain and body.
There is no evidence that community treatment orders work, so why does the UK still use them?
After years of complaints, will the British Army now use controversial anti-malarial as a drug of last resort?
The Alzheimer’s Society is concerned that people with dementia aren’t getting diagnosed soon enough. But there are pros and cons to an early diagnosis.
Scientists have found that there are many physical and mental benefits to volunteering.
Orkney’s ultra-high incidence has been linked to the weak northern sun. So how come the more northern Shetlands are less afflicted?
Fronto-temporal dementia is a rare form of dementia that typically strikes people in middle-age. Sadly, it is often misdiagnosed.
How new medicines subsidised by individual nations in the EU is a complicated business.
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
The raw ingredients that courses recruiting student nurses should look for are still a matter of debate.
A new project is incorporating technology into textiles to help people with late-stage dementia.
Children raised in orphanages often lack a key ingredient for healthy development – love.
The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
It’s time to stop panicking about paedophiles and start offering help.