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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.

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The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication networks is opening up radical new ways to boost health

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Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?

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Why people can have Alzheimer’s-related brain damage but no symptoms

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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years

Infectious disease expert Elizabeth Hohmann with one of her prized stool donors, who is called Dmitri

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This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces

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AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer

Portrait of twins

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Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment

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Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments

Health workers wearing face mask stand in front of a triage tent for suspected COVID-19 patients outside the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on April 2, 2020. - Over 500 people have died in Portugal after contracting COVID-19 among more than 6,000 recorded cases of the disease. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

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How your health is being commodified by social media

From health tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware of what's going on, says Deborah Cohen

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It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban

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This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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We’re getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

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To halt measles’ resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation