Mindfulness can improve health and well-being, but it may not work for everyone. Buddhist teachings suggest that how it is practiced – and who guides it – matters.
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A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
Understanding inflammation is one of the biggest challenges of modern medicine.
Growing old isn’t always easy. But new research suggests staying curious and social may help you age well.
Periodic Bitch tells what it’s like to live with PMDD: an extreme, chronically understudied and widely misunderstood form of premenstrual illness.
Woolf argues that illness is ‘the great confessional’ which is never talked about in literature.
A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe illness in children.
The 2025-26 ‘super’ flu can come with vomiting and diarrhea, alongside the more typical aches and pains of flu.
Gifts that make a true connection acknowledge the ugly parts of illness and provide relief from daily burdens.
Subclade K flu might be behind the higher number of cases, but it doesn’t seem to have worse symptoms.
Finding ways to reduce stress before a marathon may be as important as ensuring you’re properly fuelled and hydrated.
People in ancient times faked illnesses for all sorts of reasons. And in extreme cases, there might be a valid reason to lie.
In many of Austen’s novels, going out in the rain meant risking illness or death. Was this really the case?
One type of sweat tends to smell more than the other, and it might not be the one you think.
Research shows exactly how entire families adjust when a partner’s sick.
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s shocking new confessional memoir, she falls in love with her dying best friend, enables her addiction – and once again blows up her own life.
COVID-19 highlighted the need to plan for medical emergencies, but most people still avoid the issue.
A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.
Between 4-7% of athletes suffered from some sort of illness at the last Summer Games.
In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic.
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Business psychologist, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Ageing & Health, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Acoustics, University of Bradford
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Research Fellow, ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Swansea University
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Catedrático de Microbiología. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología (SEM), Universidad de Navarra
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Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Reader in Sociology, University of Bath