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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.

Portrait of twins

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Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we inherit, and on where we live and what we do

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Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments

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Health workers wearing face mask stand in front of a triage tent for suspected COVID-19 patients outside the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon on April 2, 2020. - Over 500 people have died in Portugal after contracting COVID-19 among more than 6,000 recorded cases of the disease. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP) (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

Culture

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How your health is being commodified by social media

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It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban

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This virus infects most of us 鈥� 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

A woman's fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has. Now, scientists have built a strip that changes colour according to levels of this hormone, which is present in period blood, into a menstrual pad

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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 鈥� and how AI could help

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Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis

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