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Canada delays expanding medical assistance in dying to include mental illness, but it’s still a policy built on quicksand
The planned expansion of Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) law to include people with mental illnesses whose death is...
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What causes stuttering? A speech pathology researcher explains the science and the misconceptions around this speech disorder
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not....
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Air purifiers: indoor pollution kills but many devices are ineffective and some may even cause harm
Prathankarnpap/ShutterstockAir pollution kills around 7 million people each year. Most of these deaths occur in developing countries, where solid fuel...
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Nasal vaccines promise to stop the COVID-19 virus before it gets to the lungs – an immunologist explains how they work
Nasal vaccines for COVID-19 are still in early development. Paul Biris/Moment via Getty ImagesThe Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines have...
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As viral infections skyrocket, masks are still a tried-and-true way to help keep yourself and others safe
Masks are an easy and low-cost way to reduce the amount of virus entering the air and spreading to others....
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Mpox, AIDS and COVID-19 show the challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma
Fear-based public health messaging can both motivate and alienate at-risk groups. AP Photo/Gillian AllenDuring infectious disease outbreaks, clinicians and public...
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‘It’s like being in a warzone’ – A&E nurses open up about the emotional cost of working on the NHS frontline
Shutterstock/Ground PictureAs nurses prepare to strike for the first time, an A&E nurse and lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare...
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Why does the Alzheimer’s brain become insulin-resistant?
Type 2 diabetes, characterised in its advanced stages by insulin resistance, is an important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. (Shutterstock)As...
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COVID: what we know about new omicron variant BF.7
Kateryna Kon/ShutterstockSince the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7,...
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Our third COVID Christmas – here’s how things might play out
Elena Shashkina/ShutterstockThe UK is now approaching its third Christmas of the COVID pandemic. And this year feels different. There’s little...
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