June 19th, 2019
A growing band of of "master athletes" demonstrate that "we often confuse the effects of inactivity with the ageing process itself", write Stephen Harridge and...
May 29th, 2019Leonardo da Vinci produced some of the world's most iconic art, but historical accounts show that he struggled to complete his works. And now 500 years after his death,...
May 22nd, 2019Older adults who regularly take part in word and number puzzles have sharper brains, according to the largest online study to date. The more regularly adults aged 50 and...
Unhealthy diets are responsible for 11m preventable deaths globally per year, more even than smoking tobacco, according to the Global Burden of Disease study. But the...HIV/AIDS
Rates of diabetes are higher in people living with HIV than in the general population, but individualised lifestyle advice from a dietitian led to clinically and...
April 3rd, 2019Non-surgical brain stimulation techniques, such as electro-convulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, should be considered as alternative or...
March 11th, 2019Scientists believe they have identified about 60,000 cases of depression in adults under 35 in the United Kingdom, and more than 400,000 in America, that could be...
Regular vaping among young people remains low in Britain and has plateaued among adults, an independent report led by researchers at King’s College London and...Psychiatry
Scientists have pinpointed 269 genes linked to the development of depression, found an ongoing international meta-analysis drawing on data involving more than 2m...
February 27th, 2019People with Parkinson’s disease have been fitted with an implant that can deliver drugs directly to the brain through a port in the side of their head, in a pioneering...
