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App development likened to the ‘wild west’ as researchers raise concerns over one-size-fits-all targets and absence of sound science
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Letter: Vitamin D is vital not only to the health of the immune system, thereby reducing the likelihood of cancer as well as of infections, it is also essential for mental health
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For women, phone calls can keep long-distance friendships going, but men need to meet face-to-face, study shows
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Information on FGM should be available for all, but it’s the males that need educating, says Katharine Whitehorn
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Northern Sweden and the frozen Baltic provide a stunning setting for a yoga retreat that delivers as many thrills as it does chills
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Some compulsions are simply expressions of psychological needs we all feel, writes Sharon Begley
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Bikram Choudhury built hot yoga into a global brand, with trainees willing to pay him thousands. Then came the lawsuits – and a lawyer who now owns the business
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We had our daughter without a problem, so when my wife and I decided to try for a second baby, we never imagined we would need repeated IVF
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Thinspiration Tumblrs made her start to lose weight and it soon blew up into starvation, bulimia and binge eating
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Readers shared their experiences of living in cities affected by air pollution – from the curse of the ‘Delhi chest’ in India’s capital to celebrating blue sky in Shanghai
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Charity Hospital Rooms organised for professional artists to donate – and work on – pieces for a psychiatric ward in Springfield University hospital in London
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As trampoline parks spring up all over the country, Oliver Astley looks at the impact they could have on the nation’s fitness and lower limbs
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Analysts say rising influence of a wave of ‘relatable’ social media celebrities could be behind a slump in demand
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Our inauthentic self stops us from being rude and selfish. And that’s essential for a civilised society, says Ruth Whippman
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Elaine Gale, 47, on the stamina and focus needed for her sport
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You could argue that hypocrites lack self-discipline, which we think of as a moral failing – but that hardly seems a good enough explanation
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
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The physicist and cosmologist may be attached to his robotic-sounding synthesiser, but people more recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease are finding new ways to be heard
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A study suggests camping improves sleep. I’m not surprised as going back to basics in the Slovakian mountains ended months of crippling insomnia for me
Children's sugar intake equals five doughnuts a day, campaigners say