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Are beef-liver or standard iron supplements better for boosting iron?

Beef-liver supplements are said to be more effective at raising iron levels than standard tablets, but is it true? Columnist Alice Klein looks into the evidence behind the claims

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Your body changes as you age and so should your diet 鈥� here鈥檚 how聽

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An illustration of Guillain-Barr茅 syndrome, which occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the fatty sleeve that surrounds nerves (orange) and the fibres extending from peripheral nerves (blue), located outside the brain and spinal cord

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First-of-kind Guillain-Barr茅 drug switches off part of immune system

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The best new science-fiction novels of August 2026

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How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient

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Could eating less protein slow ageing?

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District cooling could be the solution we need to tackle extreme heat

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Climate change may help eliminate malaria from West and Central Africa

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Thousands of people in China have had banned Alzheimer鈥檚 surgery

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2WXCRCE Illustration of the components of proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) and some targeted protein degradation technologies. Seen are the proteolysis-targeting chimera molecule (left), an E3 ligase (green, middle) with a protein of interest (blue, middle) and ubiquitin (orange, middle), and a proteasome (blue/green, right).

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A new kind of drug will help fight previously untreatable conditions

The first of a new generation of drugs that works in a completely different way to existing ones has been approved. Columnist Michael Le Page says this approach could transform treatments for all kinds of conditions

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Peptides are the latest wellness trend 鈥� but do they work?

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Why the most central law in cosmology may need to be broken

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Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile

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Pill that lowers oxygen levels in brain may ease Parkinson鈥檚 symptoms

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How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott鈥檚 new film

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Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer鈥檚 proteins from the brain

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Beat the heat

Extreme heat brings serious health risks, but there are simple, science-backed ways to keep yourself cool.

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You should turn off fans when it鈥檚 too hot 鈥� but how hot is too hot?

Fans can make you hotter rather than cooler, but the temperature at which you should turn them off depends on several factors, including your age and the humidity level

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The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert

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Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

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How extreme heat affects the body 鈥� and the best ways to cope

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