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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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Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

Analysing mutations in genes only weakly linked with sarcoma, a cancer that often targets young people, can indicate how early the disease may strike

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Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter

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Beyond drugs: the war on lifestyle disease needs new tactics

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Why we’re funny about facts and prefer emotions

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‘Superfood’ doesn’t mean anything, so let’s stop using it

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India polio campaign

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Can polio success help India improve its public health?

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There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

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Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods

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Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?

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High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS

A leading AIDS charity has won a High Court battle over whether a preventative treatment for HIV which charities say is a "game-changer" can legally be funded by the NHS

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Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14

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Child dies in anthrax outbreak linked to thawed reindeer corpse

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Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s and stress

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Google firm hopes to control organs with electrical signals

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