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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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Even ‘healthy’ overweight people have a higher cardiac risk

Being overweight or obese is linked to coronary heart disease and heart attacks even when a person has healthy blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol

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Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age

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Vials of homeopathic products

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Choosing alternative cancer treatment doubles your risk of death

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False-colour x-ray of the abdomen showing the large intestine (colon)

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Activated charcoal drug can protect microbiome from antibiotics

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Smart cameras spot when hospital staff don’t wash their hands

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Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

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Trump says he’ll declare US opioid epidemic a national emergency

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CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans

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Side effects kill thousands but our data on them is flawed

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CRISPR-edited embryos

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This is why the first CRISPR baby won’t be born in the US

Hopes are high that gene editing embryos can ease inherited disease. The first such babies are likely within five years, but not in the US, says Jim Kozubek

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From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads

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Type 1 diabetes may be halted by experimental immunotherapy

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Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks

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England’s dire north-south health gap is a scandal that must end

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