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Child using exoskeleton legs

Technology

Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better

Half of children with cerebral palsy lose the ability to walk by adulthood. A new exoskeleton may improve their walking more than corrective surgery

News

IBM microbiome

Technology

IBM to investigate role of microbiome in autoimmune disorders

News

A person getting a glass of tap water

Health

Lithium in tap water seems to both raise and lower dementia risk

News

A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

News

Brain scans

Technology

Scanning your brain can predict what will happen in the future

News

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Health

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Comment

A multicoloured pill capsule

Health

Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

Features

A woman balancing a pencil on her finger

Health

Can’t stop procrastinating? Try cognitive behaviour therapy

News

statins

Health

Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

News

Sperm

Health

Stem cell technique could reverse a major type of infertility

Men with extra sex chromosomes can have difficulty producing fertile sperm. Now researchers have got around this in mice by making stem cells from their skin

News

Health

Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer

News

Health

Speedy test for Lyme disease could help us treat it in time

News

Life

Banking a baby's cord blood may save their life. Is it worth it?

Insight

Life

I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

News