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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.

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There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

Researchers propose splitting diabetes into five subtypes instead of the current type 1 and type 2 diagnoses. It may help, but we need to know much more

A pregnant woman taking supplements

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Probiotics and fish oil in pregnancy may reduce child allergies

An MRI scan of a glioblastoma tumour

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Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

Skin microbes

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Bacteria on our bodies may be protecting us from skin cancer

scales cartoon

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Rich-poor divide in past flu pandemics must guide strategy today

Jennifer Doudna

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Unicorns and designer babies: How CRISPR creator sees the future

STI testing ad

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Unsafe sex and STIs are rising when they really shouldn’t be

A supermarket shelf stocked with different cans and jars

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Don’t hate all processed foods – they make modern life possible

Donor registration screen

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Why the UK’s new opt-out organ donation plan probably won’t work

An infant eating fish

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Eating fish as a child seems to protect you from hay fever

Infants who eat fish are less likely to develop hay fever later on, a finding that suggests changing diets have played a role in rising allergy rates

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Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo

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Having children may add 11 years to a woman鈥檚 biological age

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Bats spread Ebola because they鈥檝e evolved not to fight viruses

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Almost every antidepressant headline you’ll read today is wrong