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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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Everything you need to know about the mpox outbreak

The World Health Organization has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern – a new variant of the virus has caused an outbreak in Central and West Africa and spread to Sweden

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Arts and crafts seem to boost well-being more than employment

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We have tools to solve the opioid crisis – so why aren’t they used?

Transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (green) found within cells (blue)

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Why is mpox a global emergency again so soon?

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1 in 5 people in a coma may be aware of their surroundings

Anopheles gambiae, collected in Mauritius, in the 1950s. image shot by Mariam Ghani in the storage facility of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, The mosquitoes belong to a US Army collection of insects that is stored in that site.

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A visually rich documentary packs a punch about how we see disease

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Is youth mental health really worse today than it was decades ago?

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MDMA therapies hit a roadblock – what’s next?

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We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses – here’s how

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Covid variant JN.1 may have become dominant due to just one mutation

The covid-19 variant JN.1 may have been able to evade antibodies and spread globally due to one critical mutation to its spike protein

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A common low-calorie sweetener raises the risk of blood clotting

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Keto diet helps with weight loss but also raises cholesterol levels

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Bacteria originally found in faeces help chronic wounds heal

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What is ‘problematic smartphone use’ and should we worry about it?