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What’s Behind the Rise in Suicides in the Middle East?
Conflict and economic hardship behind rise in suicides in Middle East

How Memories are Made and Lost
How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research

Insights into Mental Health from the Teenage Brain
Teenage brains provide insights into mental health

Libraries - Good for Your Health as Well as for Books?
Can librarians improve people’s health?

A Text a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Text alerts sent to heart attack and stroke patients reduce the risk of death

What’s the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming?
Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind

Fashion to Protect Pregnant Women Against Zika
Clothing to protect pregnant women against zika in El Salvador

Tasers’ Effect on the Mind
Tasers inflict physical agony, but what about their effect on the mind?

Women Feel Empowered by Online Abortions
Irish women opt for online abortions instead of costly travel to English clinics

Poverty Fuels Disease in Rich Countries
Tropical diseases of poverty spreading in rich countries