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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.

Arsenic

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Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic

People living in the Atacama desert of Chile evolved specific gene mutations over the past 7000 years that make them better at detoxifying the heavy metal

plague artwork

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Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic

Woman running

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Exercise reduces death from breast cancer relapse by 40 per cent

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Bird flu strain hitting China may be getting more dangerous

A person in a wheelchair looks towards a screen with a grid on it while a researcher looks on

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Mind-reading typing tool for paralysed people is fastest yet

A turtle's eye

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Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia鈥檚 sick turtles

Mouse surrounded by grass

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‘Meditating mice’ reveal secrets of mindfulness training

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Putting cancer patients in hibernation could help tackle tumours

Mother deer and fawn

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You are what you eat: Old food shortens lifespan in animals

Donald Trump

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Trump may be very flawed but that doesn’t make him mentally ill

Calls from psychiatrists for Donald Trump to be declared unfit to be US president on mental health grounds are misguided, says Dr Allen Frances

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Screening soldiers doesn鈥檛 protect them from mental illness

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Seagrass meadows help remove dangerous bacteria from ocean water

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Key Alzheimer鈥檚 drug shows 鈥榲irtually no chance of working鈥�

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Vitamin D supplements may prevent millions of winter infections