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The UK’s healthy life expectancy crisis hits women hardest, but the government’s renewed women’s health strategy doesn’t come close to matching the scale of the problem.
Better information, smarter prescribing and investment in domestic manufacturing could help the NHS weather the growing crisis of medicines running short.
Your brain doesn’t run out of space – it runs out of attention. The science of why two people can live the same moment and remember it very differently.
What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
Codeine is one of the UK’s most familiar painkillers, yet the same dose can be helpful, useless or risky depending on how a person’s body processes it.
The drugs that transformed medicine are losing their power, raising fears of a post-antibiotic era in which common infections kill.
We have probably all had the experience of lying awake in bed, our mind turning, unable to sleep.
Magnesium, lion’s mane, creatine and collagen are marketed for perimenopause and menopause symptoms. But the evidence shows their benefits may be overstated.
If the gut microbiome is disturbed, it could jeopardise our gut health.
Even after giving birth, the body goes through many widespread changes.
Wes Streeting wants to dock hospital budgets to fix NHS misogyny. The cure may be worse than the disease.
Performance-driven school environments shape young people’s wellbeing.
Beyond diagnosis, the real issue is who gets heard and what counts as knowledge about autistic lives.
Alzheimer’s research shows what happens when funding pressures and vested interests corrupt the pursuit of scientific truth.
Best known as a type 2 diabetes treatment, metformin is also being investigated for its possible effects on PCOS and ageing.
Why do we trust the wrong people and doubt the right ones? An experiment in lying reveals some uncomfortable truths.
A small conference study sparked headlines linking fruit to lung cancer. Here’s why the science tells a very different story.
AI chatbots can sound authoritative on health, but new research shows they often mislead, especially when users must interpret and apply the answers themselves.
Successful marathon running is about fuelling well, thinking clearly and responding effectively when the race starts to bite.
A major new study offers a complicated, but hopeful, answer this question.
Osteopenia is a significant but often under-recognised public health issue.
Social media videos are claiming that mouthwash kills important bacteria that are linked to heart health.
Brief awakenings are a normal part of sleep, but stress, alcohol, caffeine and irregular routines can make them harder to recover from.
New research suggests drought-parched soil turbocharges antibiotic resistance in nature, and with UK summers getting drier, that’s a growing problem.