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Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.
Heat exhaustion and heatstroke can both happen when the body overheats, but they are not the same. Here’s how to spot the difference and what to do.
AI-generated attractiveness scores raise concerns about body image, privacy, child safety and coercive control.
The morning-after pill is now easier to get than ever. But how does the new NHS pharmacy service work?
Heat stroke doesn’t just overheat the body. It unleashes an inflammatory chain reaction that can damage organs even after the temperature returns to normal.
Increased public awareness of ADHD, better diagnostic care and the availability of new and improved medications may all partly explain the trends.
A Danish trial found small memory gains at age ten, but no rise in intelligence and does not support a high-dose routine in pregnancy
Canada’s assisted-dying law has expanded since 2016. What can England and Wales learn about safeguards, eligibility and social pressure?
For many people, the mental benefits of a runner’s high even outlast the run itself.
A weekly oral pill would give people living with HIV greater treatment choice.
You spend eight hours a night in the one room nobody ventilates. That’s bad for your sleep, and ideal for mould.
Child mental health services are supposed to change lives. So why don’t we measure whether they actually do?
Your bones run on a 24-hour clock too and disrupting it with late nights and screens could be weakening your skeleton.
Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.
How to recognise an adverse drug reaction, and why reporting it could help protect others.
Social care reform has failed in the UK for 25 years. Four international examples show what a lasting fix actually requires.
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense. As they do, it’s likely more people will experience pain.
By testing hundreds of pigeon fanciers, researchers hope to predict who is most at risk and improve treatment for a wider family of lung diseases.
Pushing every set until you cannot do another rep may not improve strength or muscle growth, and can make recovery harder.
Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.
Health misinformation can have serious consequences. Here is why we may fall for it, and how we can guard against it.
From canine physiotherapy to pet supplements, wellness is booming. But what does the evidence say about keeping our animals healthy?
Any reforms which aim to make services work for people, not profits, must change who owns social care services.
Tracking thousands of people from birth to their 80s shows that long-term financial stress may quietly reshape the ageing brain.