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A baby

Health

Treating babies for HIV rapidly after birth reduces signs of the virus

Newborns given HIV treatment quickly after birth had fewer infected cells in their blood and had less damaged immune systems that those given the treatment later

News

Pork being sold in a market in Beijing, China

Life

China has 50 per cent fewer pigs – but how many of them actually died?

News

veg and pulses

Health

Choline: The forgotten vital nutrient we’re not getting enough of

Insight

Will the planet ever be free from the scourge of polio?

Health

Will the planet ever be free from the scourge of polio?

Regulars

The biggest worldwide mammals migrations in the swamp forest of mushitu trees in Kasanka National Park, Zambia.

Environment

How deadly disease outbreaks could worsen as the climate changes

Analysis

Real time badger tracking shows culling could increase spread of TB

Environment

Real time badger tracking shows culling could increase spread of TB

News

Scare stories of mutant GM mosquitoes aren’t true, but have some truth

Comment

Scare stories of mutant GM mosquitoes aren’t true, but have some truth

Comment

diagnosis TV show

Health

Netflix's Diagnosis is a real-life House with added crowdsourcing

Culture

How what you eat directly influences your mental health

Health

How what you eat directly influences your mental health

Features

If I have a disease-causing gene, should my doctor tell my family?

Health

If I have a disease-causing gene, should my doctor tell my family?

Genetic testing is undermining medical norms as people sue their doctors for either telling them or not telling them a relative’s diagnosis, says Laura Spinney

Comment

Health

Wild polio has been eradicated in Nigeria but infections will continue

Analysis

Health

Can we halt multiple sclerosis? Catherine Lubetzki is finding out how

Regulars

Technology

Why are people still dying of malaria when we have a treatment?

Features

Health

Have we found the true cause of diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's?

Features