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Focusing on health rather than disease will make us all feel better

There is a revolution taking place in our understanding of healthcare, and it is shifting priorities towards maintaining health before we ever need to wrestle with illness

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CARDIFF, WALES - FEBRUARY 23: A teacher wearing a face mask teaches a child at Roath Park Primary School on February 23, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. Children aged three to seven began a phased return to school on Monday. Wales' education minister Kirsty Williams has said more primary school children will be able to return to face-to-face learning from March 15 if coronavirus cases continue to fall. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

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HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we've been slow proving this

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Tall children may be at greater risk of some forms of heart disease

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Wildfire smoke is reversing decades of progress on clean air

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Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up

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Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up

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New Scientists studied bull sperm, which have similar structures and swimming patterns to human sperm

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Sperm sense what they are swimming through and adapt their behaviour

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Why is there a shortage of ADHD drugs and what can people do?

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Louis XIV made a surprising type of surgery popular

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A curious history of famous body parts

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Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?

Analysis

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You probably don't need 8 hours of sleep for a healthy brain

The largest analysis of brain scanning data yet casts doubt on the idea that shorter sleep duration is linked to shrinkage of the brain

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We may now know how ketamine can treat depression for so long

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Home stool test detects bowel cancer with over 90 per cent accuracy

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Our cells may boost their health by eating bacteria-killing viruses

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Migraines linked to rare genetic variants that could boost treatments

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