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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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Australia’s cervical cancer vaccine might eradicate the disease

A national school-based vaccination programme has seen the number of young women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infections fall from 22.7 to 1.5 per cent

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We’ve evolved to sleep less and that may be causing Alzheimer’s

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There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

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Probiotics and fish oil in pregnancy may reduce child allergies

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Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

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Skin microbes

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Bacteria on our bodies may be protecting us from skin cancer

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Rich-poor divide in past flu pandemics must guide strategy today

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Unicorns and designer babies: How CRISPR creator sees the future

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Unsafe sex and STIs are rising when they really shouldn’t be

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Don’t hate all processed foods – they make modern life possible

There's a danger that if society condemns all processed food as bad then research into its many potential benefits will be hampered, warns Nicola Temple

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Why the UK’s new opt-out organ donation plan probably won’t work

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Eating fish as a child seems to protect you from hay fever

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Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo

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Having children may add 11 years to a woman’s biological age

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