Chocolate Locust Anyone?

The UN urges the world to eat more insects

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Physical Effects of Chemical Weapons

What do chemicals like mustard gas and nerve agents do to the body?

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Vaccine Confidence Project

A new online tool which scans the web for negative and positive mentions of vaccines

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Paleofantasy

Are we biologically better-suited to the hunter-gatherer diet of our cavemen ancestors?

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Is There a Doctor on Board?

A new study sheds light on how to deal with medical emergencies on planes

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Sunscreen Prevents Skin Ageing

How a randomised trial in skin cancer found using sunscreen protects against skin ageing

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Falling Diabetes Mortality

Why fewer people have been dying from diabetes in the UK and Canada in the last 15 years

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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Could essential oils such as lavender and thyme be replacements for antibiotics?

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James Pennebaker

How psychologist James Pennebaker showed writing about your emotions can improve health

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Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

What motivates humans and drives them to accomplish all they are capable of?

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The Occupational Hazards of Herring Processing

Why oily fish are good to eat, but not so great if you inhale their microscopic particles

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What Doctors Feel

How do emotions affect physicians and the way they treat patients?

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Height and Cancer

What is the link between how tall someone is and the risk of getting cancer?

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Window into the Brain

Why looking at the condition of blood vessels in the retina can help predict strokes

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Health Data and Ethnicity

A new report calling for ethnicity to be taken into account when health data is collected

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The Case of Henry Molaison

The neurological patient with amnesia who contributed to our understanding of memory

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Child Psychologist Anna Freud

How Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter, revolutionised the way we think about children

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Tablets for Kids

Is medicine in tablet form better for children to take instead of liquid medicine?

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Indigenous Rights and Medicine

How medical students in Canada are training to provide appropriate health care

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Awake and Anaesthetised

A new survey looking at the number of people who are aware during general anaesthesia

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Reform of US Health System?

What will the US health reforms of universal health insurance mean for Americans?

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Haitian Health Care

The challenges facing health care in Haiti three years on from its devastating earthquake

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Vaccine for HPV in Laos

Anti-cervical cancer vaccine for girls where there is no screening or radiotherapy

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Polio in Syria

A suspected outbreak in Syria where vaccination rates have been slashed

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Unemployment as a Health Issue

WHO launches a campaign to address the link between health and unemployment

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Intersex

Germany gives legal rights for people who do not fit the two genders of male or female

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The myths concerning people’s health after natural disasters

Is it really true that spread of disease is inevitable or that dead bodies pose a risk?

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Children of Jannah

The UK charity providing specialist bereavement support for Muslims

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Bedtime Aspirin

How taking aspirin at night may reduce the risk of a heart attack in the morning

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Healthcare in Danger

The increasing perils for medical personnel working in conflict zones

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