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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.

Katharine Hepburn in the 1981 film On Golden Pond, for which she won Best Actress at the Oscars aged 74

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­­Oscar-winning actors live longer than unsuccessful nominees

Oscar winners alive today are expected to die aged 81.3, on average, compared with 76.4 for their fellow nominees and 76.2 for their unnominated co-stars

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KD738R Elderly overweight man

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People over 80 with ‘overweight’ BMI may have lower mortality rates

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An older couple kissing

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A third of people aged over 70 are sexually active, survey reveals

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Covid-19 vaccines don’t affect success of fresh embryo transfer IVF

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Artificial nerve cells have been made in the lab

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CRISPR nanocapsule limits growth of aggressive brain tumours in mice

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LISBON, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: A mask-clad Nova Medical School final-year student gives a woman a blood glucose test to check possible diabetes at a screening post in Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. Nova Medical School final-year students perform free cardiovascular screening, hypertension, diabetes and obesity check-ups to passers-by in a joint project with Lisbon's Areeiro Parish (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Is covid-19 causing a global surge of diabetes cases?

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Antibiotic-resistant acne could be treated by phage therapy

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A farmer?s wife breastfeeds her baby while two other women give water to a child from a pitcher. From The Five Senses Series by Fredrick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1632-1670. CREDIT: F. Bloemaert/A. Bloemaert/N. Visscherimage/Rijks Museum/Public Domain

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Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn’t breastfeed

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A person at a covid-19 test centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK, on 21 December

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Covid-19 news archive: March 2022

This is an archive of the New Scientist daily covid-19 news update, March 2022, Updates from: February 2022,  January 2022, November/December 2021, September/ October 2021, July to September 2021, June/ July 2021, May 2021, March 2021, February 2021, January 2021

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Buckyball-shaped scaffold makes stem cell tissue grow faster

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Meningitis vaccine may be a new weapon against ‘super-gonorrhoea’

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A single mutation could make Zika virus a lot more dangerous

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Interoception: Monkeys can sense their own heartbeat just like us

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