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Navigating in a connected world

Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.

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Measure for measure?

From censuses to smartwatches, Ross MacFarlane shows how we have tracked health across the centuries.

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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web

Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.

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Menstruation, magic and moon myths

Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.

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  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with angels: she is sewing. Engraving by G. Ottaviani after P. Angeletti after G. Reni.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by F. Allegrini, 1762, after G. Zocchi after J. Sustermans.
  • AIDS prevention advertisement for the People with HIV Network
  • A fist punches out of a blue balloon bearing the words 'Jr. Hat2' with a personified smiling condom at the centre and a young man wearing a striped jumper in the background; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for the People with HIV Network. Colour lithograph by Fumi Ikegami, ca. 1990's.
  • The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. : In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende o in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
  • The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. : In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende o in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
  • The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. : In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende o in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
  • Saint Bonaventure, Saint Ignatius of Loyola and San Pedro Regalado. Etching by T. Viero after F. Boscarati.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
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