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women's health

Health

Your period may make sport injuries more severe

Professional football players who became injured while on their period took longer to recover than when injuries occurred at other times of their menstrual cycle

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False-colour nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) image of a human head

Health

Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes

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Reconstruction of the city of Wroxeter in Roman Britain

Humans

Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health

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T0DKNR Lake Atitlan Guatemala

Health

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

Comment

Cheerful mother and daughter tickling and playing at home on couch

Humans

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

Features

Woman using a mobile phone

Technology

How worried should you be about spending too much time on your phone?

Analysis

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.

Health

How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

Features

A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

Health

A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

Features

Health

Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: 3D printed organ scaffolds by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is displayed as part of the 'AI: More than Human' exhibition at the Barbican Curve Gallery on May 15, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Barbican Centre)

Health

A fascinatingly grisly guide to replacing and repairing body parts

Mary Roach's new book Replaceable You explores what we do when bits of our bodies break down or need switching out. It makes for a brilliant read – just beware the gory details, warns Carissa Wong

Culture

Health

Cars are getting bigger. This is a problem for us and for the planet

Comment

Health

The vital, overlooked role of body fat in shaping your health and mind

Features

Health

Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why

Features

Health

Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch

Features

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