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Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bone stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in recovery - all to be a few centimetres taller? This the promise of ...

If you're a parent or have a chronic health condition that needs quick or frequent trips to the bathroom, you've probably mapped out the half-decent public toilets in your area. But sometimes,

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down ...

Prior to last week's release of the report on the effects of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on U.S. climate, health, and welfare by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, I was ...

A food truck in southern Italy recently became the centre of a deadly health scare. A food-borne outbreak linked to preserved vegetables killed two people and sent more than a dozen to hospital. At ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Staring at the ceiling while the clock blinks 3am doesn't only sap energy for the next day. A large, long-running US study of older adults has now linked chronic insomnia to changes inside the ...

Sex is important. Romantic, typically sexual, partnerships are often among the most central relationships in individuals' lives, providing a host of personal, health, social and economic ...

The term "probiotic" has a health halo around it, which is why you find the word slapped on all sorts of packaged foods - particularly yogurt. "Probiotic" has become synonymous with "healthy." But ...

For years, health authorities have warned against red meat consumption, with the World Health Organization's cancer research arm classifying it as "probably carcinogenic to humans". But a ...