Credit: CC0 Public Domain A top Chinese health official said Sunday that a new deadly virus that has infected nearly
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We need to celebrate female artists for their work not their bodies
"It isn't gonna be awesome if she gets diabetes." With that one comment about pop phenomenon Lizzo, celebrity personal trainer
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Human ‘check engine’ lights not far away
A University of Alberta computing scientist thinks the future of health care looks like the blinking check engine light on
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Big danger: fireworks-giant Weco calls back new year’s eve rockets
The manufacturer “Weco” do not need to call three of his fireworks products, because they conform to the requirements of
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Half of WHO-recommended policies to reduce chronic diseases are not put into practice
The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) finds that implementation is slowly improving, but
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Sleep helps memory, right? Not for eyewitnesses
New research investigating the effect of sleep on eyewitness memory has found that having a period of sleep, compared to
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E-cigarettes do NOT increase pneumonia risks, study suggests
E-cigarettes do NOT increase pneumonia risks: Study suggests vapor does not weaken the immune system in the same way as
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Fertility treatment, not maternal age, causes epigenetic changes in mouse offspring
Though epigenetic disorders—diseases caused by faulty gene expression—are still rare overall, babies born using fertility treatments have up to an
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Why your white noise machine might not be helping you sleep
It comes in pink, brown, and white. No, we’re not talking about ice cream or fashion accessories — we’re talking about noise,
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How to get past ‘I’m not that good – surely people will realise soon’
There’s no doubt Emma Isaacs is a high achiever. The Australian entrepreneur and mother of five is a bestselling author
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