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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 scan of a brain during an epileptic fit

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Some people with epilepsy can learn to stop their own seizures

Alertness training seems to help some people with epilepsy to stop themselves from having seizures, and has been linked to changes in their brain structure

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First UK three-parent babies could be born this year

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Brain genes hint at why Zika doesn’t always cause microcephaly

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Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

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At least three types of bacteria may help cause bowel cancer

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Depriving the brain of a sense may improve stroke recovery

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The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods

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The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction

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Defence strategies: How immunology took its great leap forward

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Trump’s 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here’s a better one

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns. The government has been all talk and little action

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Secret US military bases revealed by joggers using fitness app

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Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

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Can a brain implant treat Alzheimer’s? It might just be placebo

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Mediterranean diet linked to higher chance of successful IVF

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