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Our modern understanding of obesity and metabolic disorders recognises that maintaining a healthy body is a bit more complicated than diet and exercise. This...

A glance in the mirror as you head out. A reflection in a car’s paintwork before you meet a date. Men, ever catch yourself...

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food Hippocrates’ famous advice still holds true 2,500 years later as Tennessee, USA researchers...

Researchers based at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica report that blocking a protein called DRAK2, prevents toxic fatty acids from deploying a poison...

Once upon a time, bacteria and other microbes were seen as the enemy, but scientists are increasingly discovering a mutual dependence between us and...

Recently we highlighted a new study that may answer the question "how come people with ME/CFS have totally normal looking muscle cells suffer from...

For decades, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has had doctors and scientists stumped. As a result, unhelpful myths have developed around this condition. However,...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States after skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, one in...