Stories

• Ask the expert: HIV and the brain

  Professor Ian Everall on what being HIV positive can mean for you mentally.

  22 September 2014

  • Contagion, HIV

• Ask the expert: HIV and health

  HIV consultant Ranjababu Kulasegaram on the medical impacts of being HIV positive.

  22 September 2014

  • Contagion, HIV

• Ask the expert: HIV and everyday life

  Lisa Power on how being HIV positive can affect everything from relationships to travel.

  22 September 2014

  • Contagion, HIV
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  In pictures: AIDS posters

  A historical 18-image gallery of AIDS awareness posters from around the world.

  22 September 2014

  • Contagion, HIV
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  Secrets of the strong-minded

  Can children be made more psychologically ‘resilient’ to traumas like 9/11 – as well as the stress of everyday life? Emma Young meets a former school principal who believes they can.

  16 September 2014

  • Mind, Resilience

• Chocolate meditation and mindfulness in schools

  A programme is teaching UK kids to live in the now, so they can be stronger later.

  15 September 2014

  • Mind, Resilience

• Could this drug make you mentally stronger?

  Could a new discovery pave the way for a resilience-boosting drug?

  15 September 2014

  • Mind, Resilience

• Stronger body, stronger mind

  Exercise is one of the best ways to boost resilience, writes Emma Young.

  15 September 2014

  • Mind, Resilience
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  South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come?

  Lifestyle and economic changes are bringing an obesity crisis to South Africa and other low-income countries. Ian Birrell meets the people fighting to turn the tide.

  09 September 2014

  • Health, Exercise and diet
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  Surviving through science: life with cystic fibrosis

  Not long ago, children with cystic fibrosis were lucky to reach adulthood. They are now likely to live into their 40s and beyond. Penny Sarchet reports.

  02 September 2014

  • Health, Genetics

• A lifetime with CF (gallery)

  Rob Dixon has lived his whole life with cystic fibrosis.

  01 September 2014

  • Health, Genetics

• Going viral for gene therapy

  Could viruses be the key to making gene therapy a reality?

  01 September 2014

  • Health, Genetics

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