Medicine

Helen Octavia Dickens (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)
Missed Genius
The doctor who pioneered the Pap smear
By Rachel E Gross
Gisella Perl (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)
Missed Genius
The doctor making heartbreaking choices
By Rachel E Gross
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Medicine
The animal toxins that could save us
By Zoe Cormier
The daily rhythm of our internal body clock not only determines when we sleep but also how our body heals and fights off disease (Credit: Getty Images)
Medicine
The worst time of day to get sick
By Linda Geddes
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In Depth
How to be stress proof
By Mithu Storoni
Each skeleton tells the story of its owner's life (Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
How modern life is changing our bones
By Zaria Gorvett
A nurse administers a vaccine to a child at Ewin Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana (Credit: Getty Images)
Health
This vaccine could transform medicine
By Gaia Vince
Food insecurity may lead to unexpected long-term damage to someone's physical and mental health (Credit: Alamy)
Mosaic@Future
The long-term effects of going hungry
By Chris Baraniuk
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In Depth
The princess who transformed surgery
By Chris Baraniuk
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Mosaic@Future
What happens when anaesthesia fails
By David Robson
According to one theory, kifafa may arise from a childhood infection (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The mystery illness haunting Tanzania
By Zaria Gorvett
Having retrieved the patient from the Antarctic base, the team had an epic journey to the nearest hospital (Credit: Tim Nutbeam)
In Depth
The world’s most extreme rescue mission
By Sandrine Ceurstemont
It's widely believed that antibiotics wipe out your gut bacteria – along with the harmful bacteria that might be causing your infection (Credit: Getty Images)
Microbes and Me
When taking probiotics could backfire
By Martha Henriques
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Sex
Myth-busting the vibrator’s origins
By Martha Henriques
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Spanish flu: 100 years on
Why the 1918 flu virus was so lethal
By David Robson
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