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Discover the latest health news, scientific discoveries and big ideas about the human body and treating diseases, covid-19, diet, fitness, exercise, wellness and how to live a healthy life.

A Moderna research associate pictured in a laboratory at the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

People who received a personalised melanoma skin cancer vaccine on top of a standard treatment were less likely to die over the study period than those who had the standard treatment alone

A person holding a glass of alcohol

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Drinking more alcohol after a traumatic event may increase PTSD risk

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Landmark pig heart transplant was a big leap forward in 2022

TOPSHOT - Staff members from the Hoshinoya Tokyo hotel demonstrate the "Lantern Dining Experience", where lanterns made by Kojima Shoten - a shop in Kyoto - are used to shroud diners for mask-free dining amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, during a media event at the hotel in Tokyo on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

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The covid-19 pandemic’s third year saw countries adopt new approaches

A person has their temperature checked before entering a market in Coata, Peru, in July 2020

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Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021

Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

Drinking "mistimed" expressed breast milk may affect a baby's sleep

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Timing of expressing milk and a baby drinking it affects infant sleep

The stretchy and instantly adhesive patch that can cover holes in lungs

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Sticky plaster for punctured lungs stretches as they expand

Alyssa on the day she received the base-edited cell therapy in May

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Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

An illustration of neurons

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Stimulating the vagus nerve may reduce symptoms of multiple sclerosis

An implanted device that stimulates the vagus nerve reduced symptoms of multiple sclerosis in rats as effectively as standard medications

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Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and alcohol use

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We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine, researchers say

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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

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AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether people have diarrhoea