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Health & fitness

  • Happy smiling mother holding her newborn baby after being born in a bath

    Water births do not increase risk of complications, study finds

  • Portrait of Hannah Fletcher.

    Is there asbestos in your makeup? Why women with cancer are suing big beauty brands

    As tens of thousands of lawsuits related to Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder flood US courts, many women are coming forward claiming that talc-based makeup gave them asbestos-related mesothelioma. Why is talc still present in almost all cosmetics?
  • Samuel Burr sitting at a table, smiling and looking relaxed, with a mug of coffee on the table

    ‘We’ve talked for hundreds of hours’: the joy of volunteering as a telephone friend

    We’re 50 years apart and have never met, but my connection with Pauline is deeper than I could have imagined
  • Woman giving a baby a bottle of milk

    Breast isn’t best for every mother and baby

  • Three young people smiling

    ‘You can do anything here!’ Why Lithuania is the best place in the world to be young

  • Phil Daoust sitting in Norwood Park.

    Never write yourself off! 25 things I’ve learned about getting fit – after almost 60 years of sloth

  • David Robson writer

    How learning about the science of shyness helped me

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Advice

  • illustration of man standing alone

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My daughter took her own life, and I can’t face talking to anyone about it

  • Illustration of two pairs of male legs in bed

    Sexual healing
    I used to be a top, but it no longer works for me. How do I tell my partner I’ve become a side?

  • Posed by model Rear View Of Man Working From Home On Computer In Home Office Stretching At Desk

    Ask Philippa
    Why do I keep falling in love with totally unavailable people?

  • Samsung Galaxy Book3 360

    Consumer champions
    Is my Samsung laptop not all it’s cracked up to be?

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Running & biking

  • woman with elctric mountain bike in the Dolomites<br>nice and active senior woman riding her electric mountain bike on the high plateau of Pratto Piazzo in the three peaks Dolomites , rocky silhouette of Mount Cristallo in background, South Tirol, Italy

    How to keep your cool cycling up Italian mountains with a teenager in tow

  • The legs of a woman in blue skates

    ‘I made curtains on the train’: the commuters livening up their journeys

  • A family cycles on the Strawberry Line, part of the National Cycle Network route 26, at Shute Shelve Tunnel near Axbridge in Somerset.<br>2CE88HH A family cycles on the Strawberry Line, part of the National Cycle Network route 26, at Shute Shelve Tunnel near Axbridge in Somerset.

    Somerset’s growing cycle network bears fruit: a ride on the Strawberry Line

  • A police constable looks on as a cyclist rides alongside a horse bus (omnibus), London 1895. Illustration for Cycling, Badmington Library, London, 1895. Artist Stephen T Dadd.

    Cycling notes: speeding machines and rim damage – archive, 1899

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Health news

  • 3d illustration of sperm cells over black background

    Stable sperm counts in Denmark cast doubt on ‘spermageddon’ fears

  • A box of Mounjaro, a tirzepatide injection drug

    Mounjaro is second obesity drug to be approved for use in England

    • A pupil tucks in at The Priory primary school in Wednesbury, West Midlands.

      ‘A full tummy means pupils can concentrate.’ But is Labour’s school breakfast plan bold enough?

    • Pregnant woman holding her belly

      ‘It was empowering and joyful’: the UK women hiring private midwives

    • a pregnant person touching their belly

      Heatwaves increase risk of early births and poorer health in babies, study finds

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