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Why you are not losing weight
- Spring eye allergy: an eye surgeon explains
- Storing data on DNA for centuries
- LED lights are stealing our sleep
- Skin in winter: dry skin and cold hands and feet
- Fighting infection before antibiotics: from ancient times to the 19th century
Plants & Natural Remedies
The health benefits of chrysanthemum
- Strawberry allergy
- Alternative medicine can be dangerous for children
- Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)
- Medicinal plants: stinging nettle
- A herbal steam inhalation for colds that also freshens the air
Nutrition & Fitness
The hotter the drink, the higher the risk of oesophageal cancer
- Your muscles start ageing at 35
- Licorice root: an ancient remedy under the microscope
- A healthy diet is good for the planet too
- Food and ageing
- The health benefits of soy products
Family & Children
What children watch on screens decides how much it affects them
- Iron deficiency in pregnancy affects the baby’s brain
- Permanent winter time is better for your health
- A rare cancer that passed between twins in the womb
- “Study”: a mother’s kiss does not ease a child’s pain
- Ebola: the African haemorrhagic fever
Medical Cases
A new vaccine to protect against acne
- An electric jolt to make men see women as people
- Women trip harder than men on psychedelics
- Stress helps you remember
- Women’s skin heals in better coordination than men’s
- A lung cancer that came from a worm!
Sexual Health
Oral sex is falling among teenage girls
- Masturbation: health benefits and harms
- Study measures HIV rates among female sex workers
- The G-spot: a little-known area that heightens women’s pleasure
- Sex and heart failure
- The health benefits of sex
Opinion & Myths
The waste of medicines
- Destiny, free will and science
- Milk and osteoporosis: too much of a good thing?
- Fish with yoghurt: myth and truth
- The most important person in the world
- Phobia: a working wife