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Adolescence is a time when life-long mental health difficulties can first emerge. Researchers in Cambridge have scanned hundreds of teenage brains and combined the data with genetic information to try to work out why this happens. They hope that by identifying factors which increase the risk of developing conditions like schizophrenia, doctors will eventually be able to intervene early.

1 in 5 burn wounds can become infected as they start to heal. But even burns experts can鈥檛 tell which patients need antibiotics without removing dressings and swabbing the wound to culture it in the lab. British researchers have come up with a 鈥渟mart鈥� bandage 鈥� containing tiny nanocapsules of dye which 鈥済lows鈥� when it comes into contact with enzymes released by infecting bacteria. It鈥檚 hoped if that trials prove successful then the dressings will be used to spot infections earlier.

A new study has revealed that nearly all costly add-on treatments offered by UK fertility clinics to increase the chance of having a baby through IVF are not supported by high-quality evidence proving that they work.

Australian novelist Julia Leigh鈥檚 book Avalanche describes her own personal IVF experience.

(Photo caption: Scientists have mapped the structural changes that occur in teenagers鈥� brains as they develop, showing how these changes may help explain why the first signs of mental health problems often arise during late adolescence. Credit: 漏 Bob Bradburn
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