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Will muscle-boosting meds be the next big thing after GLP-1 drugs?

A number of drugs designed to prevent muscle loss and boost muscle growth are being tested in clinical trials. Columnist Michael Le Page looks at whether building and maintaining muscles is about to get a whole lot easier

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Risk of dementia could be halved with use of metformin

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From back pain to cancer, how the interstitium could transform medicine

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Burns improve more rapidly after treatment with fish skin

Jeanne Calment

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How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling

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Will personalised mRNA vaccines transform cancer treatments?

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Two emerging tick viruses that can be deadly are spreading in the US

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It is finally time to talk about the impact of fluctuating hormones

A scanning electron micrograph of immune cells called T-cells (green) and a brain cancer cell

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Newly discovered immune hubs in our skull may keep our brain healthy

Chitetsu Watanabe when he was recognised as the World's Oldest Man by the Guinness World Record on 12 February 2020, aged 112, in Joetsu, Niigata, Japan

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Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer

People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections

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We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep

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Postbiotic could reduce the risk of brain damage after a concussion

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Why many women with ADHD feel overwhelmingly controlled by their hormones

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Our blood’s body clock may be causing anaemia cases to be missed