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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.

A child sitting in a hospital bed

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Why are children catching so many illnesses this winter?

Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like influenza and RSV. While this is partly because child infections fell during covid-19 restrictions, that isn鈥檛 the whole story

Deer tick on a leaf

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Lyme disease may spread further by helping ticks survive cold winters

A transmission electron micrograph of Streptococcus pyogenes

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn鈥檛 there a vaccine?

X-ray of feet affected by gout

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Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of 2.6 million people

A Moderna research associate pictured in a laboratory at the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

A person holding a glass of alcohol

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Drinking more alcohol after a traumatic event may increase PTSD risk

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Landmark pig heart transplant was a big leap forward in 2022

TOPSHOT - Staff members from the Hoshinoya Tokyo hotel demonstrate the "Lantern Dining Experience", where lanterns made by Kojima Shoten - a shop in Kyoto - are used to shroud diners for mask-free dining amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, during a media event at the hotel in Tokyo on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

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The covid-19 pandemic鈥檚 third year saw countries adopt new approaches

A person has their temperature checked before entering a market in Coata, Peru, in July 2020

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Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021

Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer鈥檚 disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

Removing only a small segment of a gene in the brain cells of mice reduced the formation of plaques seen in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease by 44 per cent

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Timing of expressing milk and a baby drinking it affects infant sleep

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Sticky plaster for punctured lungs stretches as they expand

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Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia

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Stimulating the vagus nerve may reduce symptoms of multiple sclerosis