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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

Susan Wise Bauer's The Great Shadow investigates the effects of illness on individual lives and collective beliefs. It's a mixed bag, says Peter Hoskin

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How your health is being commodified by social media

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How your health is being commodified by social media

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This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

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To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation

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ECG trace and mri brain scan, artwork

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Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack

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Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility

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Bone cancer therapy unexpectedly makes tumours less painful

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Why singing, dancing and engaging with art is good for your health

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Why biological clocks get our 'true age' wrong – and how AI could help

Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying – but they’re not all they are cracked up to be, says columnist Graham Lawton

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Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis

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Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventing obesity

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Does limiting social media help teens? We'll finally get some evidence

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Strips of dried placenta help wounds heal with less scarring

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