Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free Eating more fruit could reduce the impact of air pollution on the lungs, a new study has suggested. This could be downContinue Reading
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Callum Smith, 19, has become a prisoner in his own home, unable to leave or even enjoy the simple pleasures ofContinue Reading
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voronaman/Shutterstock It’s 2:47 am and your phone buzzes on the nightstand. The notification suddenly glows in the darkness: “You’re on a 7-day streak!”; “Don’t break your streak!”. You feel the need to open the app right away for an emergency breathing exercise. Half-awake, you fumble for the device, chest tightening.Continue Reading
Oleksandra Bolotina/Shutterstock.com Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumour types. Yet recent research is challenging parts of this long-standing practice. Imagine your body’s immune defences as a city, and lymph nodes as the hubs where police and firefighters gather fresh intel to launch theirContinue Reading
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Limb lengthening surgery creates an intentional fracture in order to encourage new bone growth. Pixel-Shot/ Shutterstock Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bone stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in recovery – all to be a few centimetres taller? This the promise of limb-lengthening surgery.Continue Reading
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