Wuhan coronavirus: we still haven’t learned the lessons from SARS
Diana Bell, University of East Anglia The SARS outbreak in 2002-2003 was the first global pandemic of the 21st century.
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Health
Is HRT safe to use for the menopause? What the science says
Jane Green, University of Oxford The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence launched its first guidelines on how to
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‘Detox products’ may have gone digital, but a historian explains this centuries-old trend
Erin Elizabeth Bramwell, Lancaster University If you use social media platforms such as Instagram, there’s a good chance you’ve seen
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Tracking contagion in cities, using mobile phone data
Study shows how commuting and other forms of everyday travel help spread mosquito-borne disease in urban settings. Peter Dizikes MIT
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The strange role protein plays in obesity
Tara-Lyn Camilleri-Carter, PhD Scholar, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Conservative estimates suggest that over 1 billion of us worldwide
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Six fun facts about the human skeleton
Adam Taylor, Lancaster University and Rebecca Shepherd, Lancaster University Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone
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Three reasons you have neck pain – and why ‘bad posture’ probably isn’t one of them
Christian Worsfold, University of Hertfordshire If you suffer from neck pain, you’re not alone. Spinal pain is one of the
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Can surgical masks protect you from getting the flu?
Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster Australia has just suffered a severe flu season, with 299,211 laboratory-confirmed cases, at last count,
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Does cannabis cure cancer? We asked an expert
David Robert Grimes, Queen’s University Belfast For thousands of years people have used cannabis for recreational, ritualistic and medicinal purposes.
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Why body mass index and sexual orientation study raises health concerns for lesbian and gay people
Joanna Semlyen, University of East Anglia Despite recent legal advances in the UK, such as the Equality Act 2010 and
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