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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.

Brain scans

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Scanning your brain can predict what will happen in the future

Can neuroforecasting predict the next election result or market crash? Analysing activity in a part of our brain can predict things that haven’t happened yet

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Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

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A multicoloured pill capsule

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Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

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A woman balancing a pencil on her finger

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Can’t stop procrastinating? Try cognitive behaviour therapy

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statins

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Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

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Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility

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Blood cells of someone with leukaemia

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Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer

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Lyme-disease carrying tick

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Speedy test for Lyme disease could help us treat it in time

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I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

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Banking a baby’s cord blood may save their life. Is it worth it?

Parents are paying huge sums to save umbilical cord blood for future medical treatments, but they may have to wait decades for the investment to pay off

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Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to heal ulcers

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England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025

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How US diplomats may have been attacked by sonic weapons in Cuba

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