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An extra five minutes of exercise and sleep, and half an hour less of sitting could significantly improve people’s lifespan and reduce mortality, according to two new studies.

Two new studies have identified the small changes people can make to reduce their risk of death

A large study of ME/CFS included more than 15,000 people and identified eight locations in the genome linked to the disease.

A new study suggests that everyone, regardless of whether they caught the virus, was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic

Maintaining a positive mood and eating more fruit may also help lower risk, researchers find

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

ANALYSIS: Growing evidence suggests mental health may contribute to an increased risk on endometriosis. Dora Koller and Renato Polimanti reports

Endometriosis is a chronic and systemic inflammatory disease where uterine endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus. The most common symptom is debilitating pelvic pain before and during menstruation, or during intercourse. It can also cause infertility and digestive issues such as painful bowel movements, among many other symptoms. Globally, it…

Brain scans, postmortem dissections, artificial intelligence and lab mice reveal differences in the brain that are linked to sex. Do we know what they mean?