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Why looking after your skin is so crucial to your long-term health

Emerging evidence suggests a surprisingly strong connection between keeping your largest organ healthy and staving off age-related conditions like diabetes, heart disease and dementia

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Why looking after your skin is so crucial to your long-term health

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How to nurture your microbiome to look after your skin

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CXRC8E People taking a mud bath, spa on Lake Koycegiz, Sultaniye, near Dalyan, Mugla Province, Turkey, Asia Minor

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Should you really wear sunscreen all year round, even in winter?

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What should we eat to give us better, healthier skin

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Microneedling demonstration by Dr. Jimmy Poon where a number of local Estheticans were introduced to the procedure that some see as unsafe.Dr Poon uses the Microneedle roller on the face of Esthetician Karen Clarke.(October 30 11)RICK EGLINTON/TORONTO STAR. (Photo by Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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What the evidence says about the consequences of cosmetic tweakments

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DARMSTADT, GERMANY - MARCH 19: A student sits the English school leaving examination (Abitur) at the Berthold Brecht School on March 19, 2020 in Darmstadt, Germany. It is the first day of the university-entrance diploma exams in Hesse. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, all schools in Germany are closed, however, it has been decided that the Abitur should take place with the necessary safety precautions in place. Everyday life in Germany has become fundamentally altered as authorities tighten measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

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How your mental state and stress levels influence your skin

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A customer walks down a skincare aisle at an Ulta Beauty Inc. store in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Ulta reported late Thursday??that its comparable sales rose 8.1 percent in the first quarter from??a year earlier. The increase was driven by all the right things: A booming 48 percent increase in digital sales,??as well as 5.1 percent growth in transactions and a 3 percent increase in average ticket. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The only four skincare ingredients that have been proven to work

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Will an mRNA vaccine target the norovirus strain behind surging cases?

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Is social media fuelling a rise in eating disorders?

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Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

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Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

A review of chemical exposures across 38 countries finds common plastic products are linked to millions of cases of heart disease and thousands of strokes

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A worker spraying chlorine in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024

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Mpox became a global health emergency for the second time in 2024

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Eight healthy habits could slow the ageing of your brain

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Bowel cancer is rising in younger people around the world

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2024 saw the first living people to receive pig kidney transplants

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