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Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

Analysis

An infant eating fish

Health

Eating fish as a child seems to protect you from hay fever

News

Chemotherapy

Health

Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo

News

Having children may add 11 years to a woman’s biological age

Health

Having children may add 11 years to a woman’s biological age

News

Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

Life

Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

News

pills in a hand

Health

Almost every antidepressant headline you'll read today is wrong

Analysis

Cycling in later life makes you less likely to have a bad fall

Health

Cycling in later life makes you less likely to have a bad fall

News

Health

Cases of measles in Europe have quadrupled in just one year

News

Trigger warnings are taking over universities, but do they work?

Health

Trigger warnings are taking over universities, but do they work?

Insight

A woman

Health

How you speak predicts if psychedelic therapy will help you

Psilocybin, a compound in magic mushrooms, may help treat depression in some people. Now speech analysis can indicate who would benefit the most

News

Health

We're evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol

News

Technology

Electric eel-inspired batteries could power life-long pacemakers

News

Health

Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry

News

Health

Shampoo is causing air pollution, but let’s not lose our heads

Analysis