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Eggs in frying pan

Health

Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong

Are carbs good for you? Or eggs? Every week seems to bring contradictory new diet advice. Â鶹´«Ã½ unpicks the surprising flaws in nutritional science

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Women have a higher risk of bone fracture after menopause

Health

Social stress linked to bone density loss in postmenopausal women

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Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria

Health

Chlamydia may spread through the gut to infect new parts of the body

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Brazilian Thamires Cristina dos Santos Ferreira da Silva, 29, plays with her two-year-old son Matheus Silva, who was born with microcephaly, at their apartment in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on November 30, 2018.

Health

Half of babies affected by Zika virus are developing normally by age 2

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Belly button lint

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Belly button lint

YouTube on an iPad

Technology

YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out

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fungus in petri dish

Health

Deadly drug-resistant fungal disease has ‘infested' New York City

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Air pollution

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Air pollution

Ignaz Semmelweis

People in Science

Ignaz Semmelweis

Joseph Lister

People in Science

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose work in preventing infections revolutionised surgery.

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Parkinson's disease

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Medicine

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Ovarian cancer

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Hip replacements

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