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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes

People are often diagnosed with multiple neurodivergencies and mental health conditions, but the biggest genetic analysis so far suggests many have shared biological causes

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The potential of GLP-1 drugs to transform medicine exploded in 2025

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How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year

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We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like

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Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock may boost survival

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Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immune system

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Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic attack for a year

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Human challenge trials have never been more popular

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Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by changing our microbiome

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The collaborative Human Challenge study is the first in the world to perform detailed monitoring over the full course of COVID-19, from the moment a person first encounters SARS-CoV-2, throughout the infection to the point at which the virus is apparently eliminated. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), hVIVO (part of Open Orphan plc.), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

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We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer

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Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

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Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss

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Monthly injection could replace daily steroid pills for severe asthma

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