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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.

Multiple types of dementia affect brain function

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Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose

Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) is distinct from Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and tends to affect people near the end of their lives

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Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia

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Inability to distinguish odours could be a sign of ill health

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A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don鈥檛 know why

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Two gummy bears

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Sensors made from gummy bears could monitor how children chew

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Peanut allergy immunotherapy may actually do more harm than good

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Two doses of vaccine are required for it to be fully effective

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21 million children miss first dose of measles vaccine every year

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A catheter surgery

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Robotic tube for surgery autonomously navigates inside a beating heart

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A maze that looks like a human head

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Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech

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Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more

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Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer

Longevity research is no longer aimed at prolonging lives, it is trying to keep us fit right until the end. New anti-ageing drugs may finally be here to make that happen

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Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers

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Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests

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AI that spots inequality could monitor living conditions in cities

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Dog owners are more likely to get the recommended amount of exercise

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