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Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes

Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily influenced by light exposure. 51��s have harnessed this to show that just sitting by a window improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes

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Chronic fatigue syndrome seems to have a very strong genetic element

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Your period may make sport injuries more severe

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drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria

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New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea

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

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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root 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

There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of recent studies suggest the art form might trigger prolonged inflammation

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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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How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

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