The world’s healthiest lovers? Meet the couple aiming to live to 150 They wake before dawn, take turns in a hyperbaric chamber, eat dinner at 5.30 and go to bed by 9. Is it really worth it?
The big idea: how to use your senses to help beat depression Our research suggests that it’s not sadness per se that leads to poor mental health, but shutting down input from the body. ‘Sense foraging’ offers a way out of the trap
‘Weekend warrior’ workouts may be as effective as daily exercise, study shows Scientists say total amount of physical activity people get is more important than how frequently they train
‘I definitely got a little loopy’: the writer who spent a week underground studying sleep Lynne Peeples on the ways modern life interferes with our circadian rhythms – and what we can do to sleep better
Scans capture sweeping reorganisation of brain in pregnancy MRIs taken from before conception until two years after birth show some short-lived changes and some lasting years
New screening trial could save thousands from prostate cancer The £42m Transform project aims to find the best way to catch the disease in men in its early stages
What causes snoring, is it dangerous and how can it be treated? Scientists say an epilepsy drug could reduce sleep apnoea symptoms, but how else can snoring be tackled?
Push to improve syphilis testing in US as disease makes dramatic comeback Cases have risen 80% in the last five years, and the US now has the highest syphilis rates since 1950
Epilepsy drug could reduce sleep apnoea symptoms, study finds Sulthiame may help prevent patients’ breathing from temporarily stopping, international research suggests
‘I wasn’t sure I’d make it’: how a new mother’s brush with TB could mean better treatment for pregnant women Fewer that 1.5% of drugs trials between 1960 and 2013 included expectant women. Now, campaigners and doctors are aiming to change that