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Dr Chris van Tullekan sets out to find out whether we should all be taking vitamin supplements or not. It’s a market worth three quarters of a billion pounds in the UK, but if we add to our ...

Salt is often an overlooked killer: it raises our blood pressure, leading to tens of thousands of unnecessary strokes, heart failures and heart attacks every year. In the UK, more than one in four of ...

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We had been given two types of pills; proguanil, to take weekly, and chloroquine, to take daily. Yet, by our second day in Delhi, both of us were feeling ill. Like most backpackers, we suffered ...

Anti-aging enthusiasts are embracing the promise they believe exists in the immune-suppressing drug rapamycin, a generic medication that has never been tested for boosting longevity in people.

During childbearing years, many individuals take hormonal birth control pills. As you near the age where menopause can occur, ...

While most medics dismiss this practice––one which demonises chemicals, despite water, salt and milk falling under ... of my adult life have been shaped by the pill. First prescribed it at 15 due to ...

About 24 hours later, they will take a four-pill dose of misoprostol to prompt contractions that push out the embryo or fetus ...