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What could be swimming around in your body?

In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.

What positive reminders do you need to find your happy place?

Find out what kinds of treatment history offered to people suffering from voice problems.

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

For a lesbian couple who want to share their different cultural heritages with their child, fertility treatment can get very complicated.

How do you dress for work...?

Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.

What's your favourite "getting me through this" thing right now?

Meet some of the exceptional workers whose careers span the seven decades of the NHS. Their portraits and words reveal their passion for medicine and for taking care of people.

Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.

Find out how you became you with these ten highlights from ‘The Making of You’ by embryologist Katharina Vestre.

Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

Taking a break at work, you look out of the window and feel...

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?