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After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.

Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.

Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.

Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

Wellcome Collection’s summer exhibition will trace the evolution of our relationship with our teeth and what they say about us.

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.

Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

In September 2024, Wellcome Collection will present ‘Hard Graft’ a free major exhibition exploring experiences of physical work and its impacts on health and the body.

When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.

Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.