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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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See one of the world’s dirtiest jobs: e-waste disposal

This tiny workshop is one of thousands in China where our gadgets go to die – poisoning land and people on their way out

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Don’t read this aloud in your head. Drat, failed

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Musical software helps mothers push babies out faster

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Not just obesity – faecal transplants’ weird effects

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Drop in Ebola cases may thwart drug and vaccine trials

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Official diet advice on fat stands, despite new study

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Unfounded vaccine myths harm measles herd immunity

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Chronic fatigue syndrome gets yet another name

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Watch a kidney branch out like a tree as it forms

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Rise in wildfires may resurrect Chernobyl’s radiation

Climate change may help spur fires that could release radioactive elements locked in contaminated forest soils and allow them to spread over Europe

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Both cause and cure for diabetes could be in your gut

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Crossing the germ line – facing genetics’ great taboo

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Mushroom kills with cookie cutter trick

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Trauma of war echoes down the generations

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