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Exposure to short flashes of light at night could help sleeping travellers adjust to new time zones and avoid jet lag, according to US...
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Proving that intermittent fasting works, like any lifestyle intervention, is notoriously difficult. But new technologies will better help us to understand what works and...
Exposure to short flashes of light at night could help sleeping travellers adjust to new time zones and avoid jet lag, according to US...
Brazil’s government says it will deploy 220,000 soldiers in its fight against mosquitoes spreading the Zika virus. The soldiers will go from home to...
A private UK fertility clinic is offering couples a new form of IVF treatment that lets conception occur in the womb rather than in...
The first children with debilitating “mystery” diseases have finally been given a diagnosis as part of a huge scheme to analyse people’s DNA. Four-year-old...
Standards of NHS dental care in England have been likened to a “Third World” service, by dentists. The care, already “unfit for purpose”, is...
Robert Spitzer, the influential American psychiatrist credited with establishing a modern classification of mental disorders, has died at the age of 83. Dr Spitzer...
Bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort – colistin – have been discovered in the UK. Officials say the threat to...
The UK maker of the Nurofen “specific pain” range of products has defended their packaging, after an Australian court ordered the products off shelves....
Farmers need to dramatically cut the amount of antibiotics used in agriculture, because of the threat to human health, a report says. Some infections...
A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, officials have...