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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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Drug treatment for Lyme disease could lead to its eradication

Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is becoming more common in many countries, could be eradicated using a drug that kills the disease-causing bacterium

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Ivermectin tablets arranged in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned??Americans against taking??ivermectin, a drug usually used on animals, as a treatment or prevention for Covid-19. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Ivermectin ‘buyers clubs’ want to use the drug to treat covid-19

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Shadow of a girl on a swing

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How will the UK’s Universal Credit cut affect the health of children?

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Auckland's strict lockdown will start to ease on 6 October

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Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covid strategy?

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Close-up of gay couple hands on table

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Sexual desire may be triggered by gentle touch sensors in your skin

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Sarah works in her community garden on Saturday, September 25, 2021. PHOTOS BY JOHN LOK / for UCSF

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Woman’s depression treated by an implant responding to brain patterns

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Knee osteoarthritis

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Lubricating arthritic knees with synthetic fluid may help tissue heal

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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021.

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Medicine Nobel awarded for explaining how we sense heat and touch

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Breast cancer cells

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First map of proteins in tumour cells pinpoints cancer therapy targets

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Medical pills in white, blue and other colors

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Coming off antidepressants risks relapse – but so does staying on them

People who stop taking antidepressants have a higher chance of relapsing into depression than those who continue using the medicines – but the difference isn't large

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

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Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami linked to increased risk of dementia

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The stem cell revolution isn’t what you think it is

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Should you get a covid vaccine booster shot if you’re offered one?

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