After Lucy Letby: what are new parents entitled to expect when their newborn needs specialist care?
Mary Neal, University of Strathclyde The facts of the Lucy Letby case are harrowing. A nurse has been convicted of
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Adam Taylor, Lancaster University Your hands reveal a lot about the state of your health. This is something that has
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Retinol: what is it and why is it considered a modern anti-ageing skincare essential?
Lian Liu, University of Surrey Of all the wonder ingredients promoted by skincare enthusiasts and manufacturers, retinol is among the
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Gunter Kuhnle, University of Reading According to reports, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World
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Skin, mouth, lungs … it’s not just your gut that has a microbiome
Samuel J. White, Nottingham Trent University and Philippe B. Wilson, Nottingham Trent University A lot has been written and said
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Weight loss: why you don’t just lose fat when you’re on a diet
Adam Collins, University of Surrey When you go on a diet, you don’t just lose fat – you lose muscle
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AI finds drugs that could fight ageing and age-related diseases
Vanessa Smer-Barreto, The University of Edinburgh Finding new drugs – called “drug discovery” – is an expensive and time-consuming task.
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Napping may be beneficial for your brain – here’s how
Valentina Paz, UCL; Hassan S Dashti, Harvard University, and Victoria Garfield, UCL Sleep plays an important role in keeping the
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Do these seven things really stop mosquitoes biting you?
Maisie Vollans, University of Oxford There’s one animal that ruins summer evenings: the mosquito. While mosquitoes don’t carry any diseases
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Why hay fever is so bad in the UK right now – and why thunderstorms make things worse for people with allergies and asthma
Samuel J. White, Nottingham Trent University and Philippe B. Wilson, Nottingham Trent University The UK is in the grip of
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