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How a microbe from the ice age could wreck your life – and how to protect yourself.
Social media can be a force for good, but you need to be careful how you use it.
Understanding the bugs in our lungs could help treat certain diseases, including asthma.
Throughout the medical profession, there is a culture of fear surrounding mental illness.
A parish council’s decision to charge parkrunners for using their parks may seem like a storm in a tea cup – but it’s an important test case.
It can take the body up to three weeks to fully recover from the strain of running a marathon, so here’s some foods that are scientifically proven to help aid recovery.
The mind matters when it comes to marathon running, and here are some top mental tips to help you on your way.
There is a curious paradox at the heart of the food group’s new nutrition scheme: the less consumers trust Big Food, the less attention they will pay to the labels.
Most people are aware of the benefits of breastmilk, but few are aware of the risks.
Advice is one thing but ‘just in case’ has got many women worried.
Studying how athletes’ bones contort during exercise is helping scientists understand which exercise is best for maintaining healthy bones as we age.
British drinking culture isn’t just bingeing.
The virus that could cure antibiotic resistant infections.
Big data is all well and good, but if we want medical breakthroughs, we’ll need big theory too.
Excessive drinkers are more likely to seek help when their drinking habits are compared with their peers than when they are simply given the guidelines.
As many as one in 50 people are face blind, meaning they can’t tell one face from another.
Rinsing your mouth with a sports drink and then spitting it out can improve performance.
Its attitude to porn and anal sex suggests the government would benefit from some sex ed classes too.
Where and how you have the right to legally end your life.
A baboon survived nearly three years with a pigs heart, so does that mean cross-species transplantation is imminent?
Women need to plan for a future where their career and personal finances will be significantly affected by caring for older relatives.
New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
Don’t forget to wash your hands.
When it comes to preventing the spread of germs, how you dry your hands can be just as important as how you wash them.