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The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has asked independent experts in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to look again at the decision not to vaccinate teenagers. There have been separate calls to consider an immunisation programme for...

Children's commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza and Russell Viner, professor of paediatrics and adolescent health at University College London, have reviewed the latest evidence, finding that long periods of time spent on screens alone can affect children's...

When the water reached my face, it spread over my nose and up into my nostrils in an instant....

I’m happy to think of people reading Red Mars in 2026. Its story begins around this year, but I...

Mars was empty before we came. That’s not to say that nothing had ever happened. The planet had accreted,...

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Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of...

A sperm whale giving birth has been assisted by 10 other females in her social unit – the first...

Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for cancer. However,...

Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times per day,...