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Michael Phelps swimming

Technology

Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins

Swarms of gold nanobots with rotating arms powered by magnetic fields could swim through the human body and deliver medicine directly where it’s needed

News

weekly ART drugs

Health

Monthly injections could replace daily pills for people with HIV

News

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

News

World Health Organization

Health

Trump’s plan to cut global health research may cost US billions

News

A male student sitting an exam

Health

Adderall might improve your test scores – but so could a placebo

News

boy having the HPV vaccine

Health

Refusing boys HPV vaccine saves the NHS cash but is bad science

Analysis

Woman in harness

Technology

Robot physical therapist helps people walk again after a stroke

News

lonely

Health

Everyone gets lonely. We must admit it or bear the consequences

Leader

Smartphone showing interactive chat about symptoms

Technology

An app a day keeps the doctor away

Features

Blood being taken for a test

Health

Blood test detects Alzheimer’s plaques building up in brain

Sticky plaques start forming in the brain 15 years before Alzheimer’s disease develops. A simple blood test may identify those at risk years in advance

News

Health

Feeling lonely? You're not on your own

Features

Health

The death of smoking: how tobacco will be eradicated for good

Insight

Health

UK government wants only 12 per cent of adults to smoke by 2022

News

Health

Prenatal test spots genetic anomalies linked to miscarriage

News