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High summer has returned to the UK, and with it, the usual warnings about the dangers of sunlight and reminders to seek shade and cover up.…

More than half of adult smokers in the UK wrongly believe that vaping is as harmful or more harmful than cigarettes, making them less likely to…

The Trump administration is employing “authoritarian” and “unconstitutional” quarantine measures for at least one person who came into contact with a hantavirus patient, health law experts…

Is it really news that the arts are good for you? On one level, the findings of a new study about the health benefits of engaging…

Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and Guardian science editor Ian Sample to talk through three eye-catching stories from the week, including the news that the…

Nineteen days into the second administration of Donald Trump, Colette Delawalla reached her limit.The 30-year-old budding clinical psychologist and mother of a toddler had been eager…

In 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that the practice of…

Social media is awash with content about food intolerances and the symptoms to look out for. But figuring out whether you actually have one, and what’s…

A married couple who met over a dissected brain and went on to create the first approved gene therapy for blindness have been awarded one of…

The human aversion to dull experiences was nailed by the author Paulo Coelho when he declared: “I can stand defeats, pain, anger. But I can’t stand…