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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 person wearing the kidney

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Wearable artificial kidney works well in first tests in people

A portable artificial kidney set has been used successfully by 15 people, and could free them from regular haemodialysis sessions

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GM rice cartoon

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Approval of golden rice could finally end vitamin A deficiency deaths

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Embryo being edited

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Geneticists are writing the rule book for creating gene-edited babies

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Surgeons operating

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Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

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elderly couple

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70 is the new 65 when it comes to health and life expectancy in the UK

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Astronaut working on the outsdie of the International Space Station

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Low gravity in space made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

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Illustration on the ketogenic diet (or keto), low carbohydrate diet, composed mainly of high-fat foods.

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Eating a keto diet may give some protection against the flu

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Man vaping

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Long-term smokers who start vaping see health benefits within a month

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WOMAN USING NOSE SPRAY

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An insulin nasal spray could help with polycystic ovary syndrome

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Transmission electron micrograph of the Rabies Virus. This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus (bright green), as well as Negri bodies (pale green), or cellular inclusions. The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that causes fatal disease in human and animals. Rabies transmission can occur through the saliva of animals. The rabies virus has a cylindrical morphology and is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. These viruses are enveloped and have a single stranded RNA genome with negative-sense. Negri bodies are eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies.

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Improved rabies vaccine could be better and cheaper

An estimated 60,000 people die of rabies each year, in part because of the lack of access to a cheap and simple vaccine – a new version could change that

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Eating tiny nutrient particles could be better than health supplements

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A severe form of epilepsy could be treated with cholesterol medication

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UK teen almost died from severe lung failure linked to vaping

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