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While we know daily exercise is a driver of good health, we’re constantly on the lookout for the minimum needed to get results. To satisfy this, along comes a study from Cambridge University proposing a daily 11-minute brisk walk is … Read More

Every year 15 million children worldwide are born pre-term – before 37 weeks – and it’s still the main cause of death and ­disability among newborn babies. Children who are born early are more likely to develop problems that affect their entire lives … Read More

Finally, some progress on a painful condition that’s so often ­overlooked in women. ­Researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with 25 teams across the world, have published the largest ever study on the genetic cause of endometriosis. Their study … Read More

Now here’s an interesting one, even more so because it’s counter-intuitive. If you don’t want your child to have a ­peanut allergy, or indeed any allergy, give them all the common allergic foods as a baby. So that means they eat … Read More

This is a disturbing thought, but diabetes might be the death of us all. Why? It foretells the ­demise of the NHS, which spends £10billion a year on it. And that will only rise in parallel with ­obesity, which is … Read More

Do you remember that old saying, “Educate a woman and you educate a family”? Well, a study from Lancaster ­University shows just how relevant this saying is today. Their study has found a mother’s education plays an increasingly important role … Read More

Do we need a more diverse range of people to develop our health and social care services in order to tackle inequality in accessing care? A new report from University College London says we do, and has laid bare difficulties faced by British Muslims when trying … Read More

You might remember zinc best as zinc oxide, the thick white cream slathered on babies with nappy rash and used for burns, cuts and scrapes. It’s a good barrier cream to protect the skin. But internally, zinc serves useful functions … Read More

Right from the beginning of ­assisted conception there have been questions about the long-term health of the baby. Would those babies be less healthy than ones conceived normally? After years of questioning it appears there’s no cause for anxiety. A … Read More

Preterm birth, where a baby is born before 37 weeks, is one of the major reasons babies die today. One in 10 babies is born preterm in ­high-income countries, and that rises to four in 10 in low and ­middle-income countries. … Read More