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Finding Rest in the Modern World

Claudia Hammond and guests reveal the Rest test results and analyses how the world relaxes

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Warning Over Skin-Lightening Injections

Skin expert warns of dangers of skin-lightening injections

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Poverty Fuels Disease in Rich Countries

Tropical diseases of poverty spreading in rich countries

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Women Feel Empowered by Online Abortions

Irish women opt for online abortions instead of costly travel to English clinics

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Tasers鈥� Effect on the Mind

Tasers inflict physical agony, but what about their effect on the mind?

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Fashion to Protect Pregnant Women Against Zika

Clothing to protect pregnant women against zika in El Salvador

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What鈥檚 the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming?

Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind

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A Text a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Text alerts sent to heart attack and stroke patients reduce the risk of death

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Libraries - Good for Your Health as Well as for Books?

Can librarians improve people鈥檚 health?

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Insights into Mental Health from the Teenage Brain

Teenage brains provide insights into mental health

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How Memories are Made and Lost

How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research

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What鈥檚 Behind the Rise in Suicides in the Middle East?

Conflict and economic hardship behind rise in suicides in Middle East

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Cooling the Brain Saves Lives

Brain injury patients saved by cooling

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Time Travelling in the Human Mind

Are we the only creatures who can mentally time travel?

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Bionic Bodies for Superhuman Powers?

How advances in bionics is enhancing the human body, including a bionic eye for the blind

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Getting the Best from Medicine

Tackling the twin health threats of over and under-use of medicine around the world

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Exercising Away Back Pain

Is exercise the key to preventing back pain?

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How to Spot Fake Health News

How do we sift fact from fiction in stories about health in the news and social media?

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Time Outdoors Cuts Risk of Short-Sight

Could spending time outside help your eyesight?

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How Uncertainty Makes us Dig our Heels in

Dogmatic people become more entrenched in their views in times of uncertainty study shows

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Yellow Fever: Brazil鈥檚 New Outbreak

Alongside Zika, Brazil is now facing its worst yellow fever outbreak in 25 years

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Mystery of Nodding Syndrome Revealed

Epilepsy caused by parasitic worm behind nodding syndrome mystery.

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Global Campaign to Protect Women鈥檚 Reproductive Rights

鈥楽he Decides鈥�- a coalition against USA鈥檚 global family planning funding cuts

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Can Gas Stoves Cut Indoor Air Pollution?

Replacing smoky cook stoves with gas - to improve the health of women and babies.

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The 鈥榃eaponisation鈥� of Healthcare in Syria

New report: Healthcare in Syria is being used as a weapon on an unprecedented scale

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Who is Best Suited to a Move to the Red Planet?

What are the qualities required from those who want to travel to Mars?

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What Does Rest Really Mean?

Doctors prescribe it for recovery 鈥� but for some 鈥渞esting鈥� might involve boxing or music

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The Game Encouraging Medics to not use Jargon

The card game challenging medics to stop using jargon words and simplify their language

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El Nino Shifts Cholera Outbreaks in Africa

How the weather phenomenon El Nino influences where in Africa cholera outbreaks occur

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Challenge to Arkansas鈥� Lethal Injection Drug

The rush to execute prisoners in Arkansas before lethal injection drug passes use by date

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