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How to Train the Aging Brain

10 Myths About Schizophrenia

Incredible Humans: 10 Medical Oddities that Will Make Your Heads Spin

Most Important Medical Breakthroughs of the 2000s

30,000-Year-Old Child's Teeth Shed New Light on Human Evolution

Evolutionary Surprise: Eight Percent of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus

Girl's six-fingered hand

Turtle girl baffles medics

Windpipe grown in woman's arm

Creating Hospitals From Thin Air

The Best Doctor-Recommended Health Websites

10 Craziest Plastic Surgeries to Look Like Someone Else

The 10 Most Bizarre Sex Ed Videos

Top 10 Extraordinary People With Disabilities

The Plague of Eyam. The village that died to save Its neighbours. Official Website.

Mother’s gum disease linked to infant's death

National Museum of Health and Medicine on Flickr

Top 10 Most Horrific Parasite Infections NSFW images.

7 Historical Bans on Smoking

Continuum of Change: The Hairless Human

10 Allergies Your Unlikely To Have Heard Of

What Doctors Wish You'd Do

10 Fascinating Facts About The Gift of Life

10 Stories of Bizarre Births

Bad memory? Forget it! As scientists claim running improves memory, the tricks that mean you'll never forget a name or that pint of milk again

Chinese doctors remove baby’s third leg

Doctors are addicted to 'every drug under the sun'

Lead May Be the Culprit in ADHD

Stab Victim Didn't Even Know

Rare ailment makes girl, 13, look like she’s 50

Baby's rare eye cancer spotted by mother in family photo

Photos of drinking, grinning aid mission doctors cause uproar

Antivaxxer movement leader found to have acted unethically

'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy

Physicists Kill Cancer With 'Nanobubbles'

Desiree Jennings – The Plot Thickens

How Cancer Wreaks Havoc on Bone

Your mouth can tell a lot about your health

Miracle as girl, 3, recovers from brain tumour after it simply disappears

A buyer's guide to male cosmetic surgery

Millions of people 'waste their time by jogging'

50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know

Stroke of Genius: Abilities Borne of Brain Damage

Long-Awaited Barefoot Running Study Finds Sneakers Are Harmful

Which Organs Can I Live Without, and How Much Cash Can I Get for Them?

Founders of British obstetrics 'were callous murderers'

15 Things You Didn't Know About The Human Body

AIDS Linked to Ancient Tiger

Irregular Arm Swing May Point to Parkinson's Disease

The 7 Most Pointlessly Horrifying Plastic Surgery Procedures

25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster

Many years later, a scourge returns Post-polio syndrome afflicts many who thought they’d left disease behind

Brooklyn mother Cassy Rivera regains her sight and sees youngest daughter, Aniahya, for first time

Uninsured in Japan: a medical trip report

Agent Orange Continues to Poison New Generations in Vietnam

Things I Learn From My Patients

How the Brain Encodes Memories at a Cellular Level

When Lowering the Odds of Cancer Isn’t Enough

Shot by sniper, US Army medic treats himself

Color-Changing Contacts Monitor Your Glucose Levels

In New Way to Edit DNA, Hope for Treating Disease

Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer: study

First Case of Drug-Resistant TB Found in U.S.

Cancer victim beats disease by using mistletoe instead of chemotherapy

Three siblings get gift of hearing on same day

Earlier Bedtimes May Help Protect Adolescents Against Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

Gaza sees more newborns of malformation

Solution to Killer Superbug Found in Norway

Number of people dying as a result of obesity doubles in 10 years

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

Why America is fat

Meet the brave 'crystal girl' with rare illness that is turning her body to rock

The £3 miracle jab for snorers (and it's available on the NHS)

11 Body Parts Named After People

Teeth grinders are in for a shock

Binge drinker, 7, vows to stay sober

Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better

Clearing Out the Brain's Inbox

Fat in Japan? You're breaking the law.

Top 10 Homemade Remedies for What Ails You

10 Unabashed Quacks in Medical History

5 Horrific Ways Your Brain Can Turn On You Without Warning

Bangladesh arsenic poisoning mystery solved

Mussolini's brain and blood for sale on eBay, granddaughter claims

Gulping down TEN alcoholic drinks a day slashes heart disease risk in men (but it could kill you in other ways)

Average UK woman wears 515 chemicals a day

Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons

9 ways doctors stay healthy while traveling

10 Worst Prescription Drug Side Effects

Cup of mint tea is an effective painkiller

This advertisement for Cigares De Joy was published in the The Illustrated Australian News, 1881

5 Disturbing Ways the Human Body Will Evolve in the Future

Yawn. It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain

Shocking death toll at flagship hospital

Diabetes expected to double, costs to triple by 2034

Named and shamed: Britain's 12 worst hospitals (all passed as good or excellent by health watchdog)

Behold: the world's 10 fattest countries

Rectal cancer tumour destroyed by ultrasound is a first

How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time

Blind man fitted with 'bionic' eye sees for first time in 30 years

HIV infections on the decline

Disorders That Make Us Stronger

5 Weird Medical Breakthroughs

10 Weird Facts About The Brain

No tumour link to mobile phones, says study

The carpal tunnel survival guide

Study confirms that cannabis is beneficial for multiple sclerosis

French scientists create skin fast from stem cells

The England football team will be offerd Viagra for next year's World Cup games in South Afrrica

Ethan Trex 13 Medical Conditions Named After People

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

Husband infects sex-ban wife with HIV by pricking her with sewing needle while she slept

Study Reveals the Angriest Americans

These cigarette warning labels kick ass

Woman Falls Pregnant While Already Pregnant

Mama wasn't always right: 9 updated health rules

Where Does a Memory Go?

Birth Order: Fun to Debate, but How Important?

Sheffield Museum of Anaesthesia

Using Magnetism To Turn Drugs On And Off

Woman survives being impaled in neck by tree

Notes from a hospital bed. About the food a man receives in an NHS hospital.

Researchers cure colour blindness in squirrel monkeys

Taking showers 'can make you ill'

A Burst of Technology, Helping the Blind to See

Ten mystery diseases you've never heard of

Human extremes: the tallest, shortest, heaviest and lightest people ever

The world's most important drugs

6 Healthy Habits That Can Make You Sick

Top 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments

20 Medical Mysteries and Miracles

Why women cry more than men, why horror films are scary, and why pain really is all in the mind

Some doubt hand washing stops H1N1

Understanding the Anxious Mind

The Desperate Need for New Antibiotics

Celebs Who Survived Breast Cancer

Hard-wired human flaw results in missed calls at Wimbledon

Excreted Tamiflu Found In Rivers

What made Pio Pico so, well, ugly?

40 maggots removed from woman's nose

Students turn to 'smart drugs' to boost grades

Suicide woman allowed to die because doctors feared saving her would be assault

Scientists discover clues to what makes human muscle age

5 Old Age Health Freaks

A Child is Born: Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb

Record mum has triplets naturally at 47

Healthy baby born in Germany to woman in coma

Indonesian man survives quake by sawing off own leg

Virus Is Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Why Did People Become White?

'Spider pill' offers new way to scan for diseases including colon cancer

6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain

Social services 'to take baby from teenager deemed too stupid to marry'

German arm wrestler shows off his single Popeye-esque limb

How Your Brain Tells Time

An 11-year-old girl jumped out of a car moments before it rolled down a sheer cliff face and crashed on rocks below

The 8 germiest spots in the home

Genetic mutation may be why some people need less sleep than others

Evolution Of The Human Appendix: A Biological 'Remnant' No More

Man diagnosed with clinical depression caused by girlfriend dragging him round on shopping trips

The Seven Secrets of Highly Obese People

£200,000 and 51 operations turn a mother of three into Queen Nefertiti

'Critical' teen left ward for pub

10 Strangest Allergies

15 Facts You Didn't Know About Your Body

Phys Ed: An Easy Fix for Tennis Elbow?

The 7 Stages Of Being Fat

Only six years old, January Schofield is severely schizophrenic, actively hallucinating and violent.

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why

As Waistlines Widen, Brains Shrink

Man collapses with ruptured appendix... three weeks after NHS doctors 'took it out'

10 Most Fascinating Medical Miracles

What's the harm in going to a chiropractor?

The Truth Of Iraq's City Of Deformed Babies

Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel

The Deal with Disability

Antibodies found that prevent HIV from causing severe AIDS

Nanotech Breathalyzer Detects Telltale Signs of Lung Cancer

In the Middle of Brain Surgery, Patients Wake Up and Begin Talking

Your Eyes Reveal Memories That Your Conscious Brain Forgot

Tick Saliva May Cure Skin, Liver and Pancreas Cancer

Alzheimer's Gene Alters Brain Function in Young Adults

Child Bride, 12, Dies While Giving Birth

MRSA 'superbug' found in ocean, public beaches

Why We Blush: The Social Purpose of Showing Embarrassment

7 Fatal Injuries (That People Somehow Survived)

Legal Immunity Set For Swine Flu Vaccine Makers

Dentist Dropped Tools Down Man's Throat

9-Month-Old Had Blood-Alcohol Level Four Times Legal Limit, Police Say

Stroke of Genius: Abilities Borne of Brain Damage

Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable

Three months on and cancer stricken Patrick Swayze is fighting back

Top 10 Gruesome Medieval Torture Devices

Israeli doctors experimented on children

Five Myths About Sleep and Insomnia

Mother of 555-pound Boy Charged with Child Neglect

The four grossest kid health problems

10 Strangest Manias

Diseased Human Organs

Perils of the professional lab rat

Blue M&Ms 'mend spinal injuries'

Meet Kaleb Bussenschutt: the boy who is allergic to food

Doctors have saved a woman's severed lobe by stitching it into her bottom

A Pictorial History of Dentistry

Do You Believe In 'Tooth Worms?' Micro-images Of Strange, Worm-like Structures Uncovered Inside Dissected Molar

50 Percent of Doctors Use Wikipedia

Scientists find new strain of HIV

Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections

How could a mother eat her own baby?

The Fat of the Land - A soda pop tax and government health care won’t cure obesity

'Castaway' hopes to quit smoking

Study: Redheads' extra pain may cause fear of dentists

Vestigial Organs Not So Useless After All, Studies Find

Holy Juan had a vasectomy today

How long is a severed head conscious for?

Racing star, 14, who was 'decapitated' in horror crash gets back behind the wheel

Scientists discover new Alzheimer's gene

Study: Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug

The 10 mysteries of human behaviour that science can't explain

Researchers say they found malaria's origin: In chimps

A selection of objects described in the medical literature that have ended up in the brain via the nose

Chimney Sweep's Scrotum: 10 Bizarre Job-Related Illnesses

Multiple sclerosis successfully reversed in animals

Why Do Some People Never Get Fat? Scientists May Have the Answer

Nepal villagers flock to worship malformed baby as Hindu god

Tests Begin On Experimental H1N1 Vaccine

Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin

10 Most Creative Anti-Smoking Campaigns

50 Secrets From Your Dentist

6 Items You Touch Everyday That Are Filthier Than a Toilet

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

British Columbia Medical Association's Medical Museum : Collections

10 Most Fascinating Medical Miracles

Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know

Man finds piece of Ford Cortina windscreen in chin 30 years on

Obese Exposed as Swine Flu Collides With Fat Epidemic

Mum and four daughters spend £40,000 on nine boob ops

Ebola Virus Found in Pigs, Infects Farm Workers

Sly children fool exercise study

What Are The Oddest Allergies?

8 Common First Aid Mistakes And Myths That Make Things Worse

Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class

Why your brain just can't remember that word

A collection of images of Nurses taken from Film, TV and The Media from the 1930s to the present, showing how uniform styles have changed over the years.

My stomach was in my shoulder!

6 Disgusting Ways Animals Can Improve Your Health

Gene could allow lab-grown teeth

Australian scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse"

How to Heal Sunburn

Mother of 555 pound teenager charged with neglect

Obese Michael Hebranko has lost and gained 3,000 lbs

Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn't Age

The Alli Experiment

The Tiny Robot that Can Crawl Through Your Veins—And Treat Your Tumors

Mom put human waste into girl's IV line

19 reasons to take a nap

Cancer patient loses fingerprints

10 Most Extreme Body Parts

Top 10 Myths of Mental Illness

Five-year-old Boy Left With Intricate Dragon-shaped Scar After Henna Tattoo Goes Wrong

Pimple-like Growth That Won't Go Away - Please Help

Problems are solved by sleeping

Brain surgery transforms salesman into fine painter

'I bought my daughter Botox jabs for her 18th birthday'... says mother who has spent £45,000 on plastic surgery

Life With Proteus Syndrome - What If Your Legs Couldn't Stop Growing?

Why Does My Body Do That? Learn the common causes behind your body’s little quirks

Woman loses both arms, legs in series of medical mistakes

Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs

Is Your Bitterness a Medical Condition? 8 Controversial Conditions

Amusia sufferers can't name that tune

Virus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells But Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed

Confabulatory hypermnesia, or severe false memory syndrome

'Abba' girl defies killer disease

When Myth Trumps Science (via)

7 Most Bizarre Skin Conditions

A dozen bizarre devices from medicine's dark past

What Makes Clostridium Difficile Superbug Deadly?

How To Beat Office Stress

The Wisdom on Wisdom Teeth

Surgeons perform open-heart surgery on woman - while delivering her baby at the same time

Alcoholic hand gels removed from hospitals after patients use them to get drunk

Hypnic jerk

Bionic eye gives blind man sight

Why Do Limbs “Fall Asleep”?

5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head

World's heaviest man adapts car to carry him

Suicide by man, 62, over facelift

10 Most Extreme Body Parts

Shrink Blogs

10 'secrets' you shouldn't keep from your doctor

Virus 'triggers child diabetes'

Former Monkee Peter Tork says he has cancer

Top 10 Mysterious Diseases

Eight scientists who became their own guinea pigs

The Power of Placebo

15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

Finger Length Predicts Speed, Aggression, Smarts, Motivation

Weather Change Can Trigger Throbbing Headaches

Time to Call the Doctor: 24 of the Strangest Diseases You’ve Ever Seen

15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

Unlucky teen's acne spells 'ARSE'!. It's the Daily Sport so it's NSFW

Old age begins at 27: Scientists reveal new research into ageing

3 Defunct Diseases You Don’t Have

8 Staggering Tumours

10 Gory Surgical Triumphs on YouTube

Family who are 'too fat to work' say £22,000 worth of benefits is not enough

10 Surprising Things That Affect Memory

British scientists to create 'synthetic' blood

Useless Human Anatomical Features

10 Craziest Diets in History

Video Stroboscopy of the Vocal Cords

10 Ways to Stave Off Hospital Superbugs and Other Nasty Germs

Man suffers 10 million hiccups - and still no cure

Young doctors learn bad habits from TV medical dramas

Reversing Tooth Decay

The mourning after. He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis.

Novel needle could cut medical complications

5 Sleep Myths and How to Beat Them

Waking up during surgery fairly common

Sports drinks linked to tooth damage

Surprise! Adult Hearts Grow New Cells

14 Worst Celebrity Plastic Surgeries

Top 10 Very Unfortunate X-Rays

8 Amazing Weight Loss Stories

Woman glues lids shut in eyedrop error

Woman with ‘a phantom third arm’

Isolated by her appearance, she yearned for a place in the world

Doctors confirm woman's imaginary third arm

Parents find cure for boy, 8, whose 'permanent hangover' baffled doctors

5 Retarded Health Campaigns That Backfired (Hilariously)

Doctor-in-training may have exposed hundreds of children, infants to TB

Cyborg rolls a little closer: The chariot which lets amputees 'stand tall and walk'

Brain Myths—Busted

Russian karate expert kills two over lice infection

Scientists find 'pleasure nerves'

Tooth decay putting 30,000 children in hospital every year, study finds

Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget

Mystery of Tooth Strength Cracked

police arrest bogus cosmetic surgeon who used vets' instruments on patients

26-year-old man with body of a two-year-old

Life Expectancy Calculator. 76 years for me.

9 Legal Drugs With Extremely Disturbing Side Effects

I breastfeed my dad

Test May Determine Smokers' Lung Cancer Risk

Tons of released drugs taint US water

7 Myths about Pregnancy

Top 10 Internet Illnesses

Simulated brain closer to thought

Do you have the swine flu? (A self diagnostic site)

Decorated swine flu surgical masks in Mexico

5 Most Deadly Pandemics

Simple operation to cure blindness could be available in just six years

The yoga supergran who can still assume the lotus position... at the age of 83

10 Ways to Keep Your Mind Sharp

German doctors remove 40-pound, malignant tumour from Saudi woman

5 Deadliest Pandemics in History

12 Fantastic Floating Cities and Artificial Islands

Man, 30, gives 'birth' to his twin

Double Vision: Parsing Images That Trick Our Brain

Study: Cat Parasite Affects Human Culture

Modern Pied Piper Cheats Death

Lithium in water 'curbs suicide'

Chinese ordered to smoke more to boost economy

Toddler brain difference linked to autism

Face transplant patient Connie Culp hopes her story teaches people not to judge

Healthy lifestyle triggers genetic changes

Top 5 Fitness Myths

Jobless Spaniards sell kidneys to transplant tourists

5 Most Horrific Parasitic Worms Gruesome Pictures

How a Civil War Amputation Was Performed

Rare and Interesting Mental Disorders and Illnesses

What Are the Reasons Behind Sneezing?

Memory Problems: A Stay-Sharp Guide

Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries

Michael Jackson denies skin cancer report

6 Remarkable Medical Gadgets

Top 15 Strangest Conditions of the Human Mind

The weirdest weight-loss gimmicks ever

Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists

Allergy season: Cigarettes to the rescue?

'Bone putty' holds it together

Global Ranking of Top English-Language Health Blogs

Man gets a new face and a new life

Man Falls Ill After Sucking Snake Venom From Dog's Nose

Body burners: The forensics of fire

The Placebo Effect