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A man on a motorbike riding down a dirt track stretching towards mountains in the distance (Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng)
The Health Gap

The motorcyclist fighting a deadly parasite

By Kang-Chun Cheng

Two hands holding a foot in a compression sock (Credit: Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)
The Health Gap

The cancer side-effect no-one talks about

By Katherine Wang
Two men take cover as dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center covers Manhattan (Credit: Getty Images)
The Health Gap

How 9/11 is still claiming lives

By Cindy Augustine
Illustration of a baby surrounded by tree roots (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/BBC)
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'This has to be somewhere that women feel safe'

By Cat Woods
A sculpture of a woman laying down with a red splotch A sculpture of a woman laying down with a red splotch A sculpture of a woman laying down with a red splotch
The Health Gap

The painful condition that has no cure

By Aimée Grant Cumberbatch
Illustration of a dentist's chair in a field (Credit: Prashanti Aswani)
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The hidden trauma of a trip to the dentist

By Christine Ro
Model of a billboard used in Los Angeles reading: "Syphilis is serious" (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why syphilis is rising around the world

By Krupa Padhy
People walking through smog towards India Gate in Delhi (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why we don't all breathe the same air

By Kamala Thiagarajan
Emma, Hugo and Wilhelm Cederroth in bath robes (Credit: Helene Cederroth)
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The diseases that have no name

By Krupa Padhy
There is no widespread objective measure of main (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why some people's pain is ignored

By Naomi Elster
An illustration of sperm under the microscope (Credit: Getty Images)
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The hidden reasons there's no male pill

By Zaria Gorvett
A urine sample being checked with a test strip (Credit: Alamy)
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Why women with UTIs are frustrated

By Christine Ro
Psychopathy is most commonly associated with men – particularly among criminal offenders – but it is largely understudied in women (Credit: Somsara Rielly/BBC)
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How common are female psychopaths?

By Megha Mohan
The cold can have short-term and long-term consequences for people's health (Credit: Wolfgang Schwan/Getty Images)
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How a cold home harms your health

By Chris Baraniuk
In many countries, a "virginity test" is also known as the "two-finger test" for the invasive way in which it is done (Credit: Prashanti Aswani)
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The sex myth that destroys lives

By Sophia Smith Galer
A health worker preparing Covid-19 vaccine doses in South Africa (Credit: Getty Images)
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The people left out of Covid-19 trials

By Sandy Ong and Emma Bryce