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In Nikolai Gogol’s famous story, ‘The Nose’, a St Petersburg civil servant wakes up one morning to discover his nose has disappeared, ‘to…

For 14 years New Zealander Clint Hallam lived without a right hand. Then one morning in 1998 he woke up and there it was again. Of course…

Feeling out of sorts? You could put it down to ‘Magnetic Field Deficiency Syndrome’. Headaches, back and neck pains, insomnia, heaviness…

There’s a deep irony in the fact that we have never been more connected and never more out of touch. Email and social media make us…

In 1959, cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman first used the label ‘Type A Personality’ to describe the pathologically impatient…

One of the saddest museum exhibits I ever saw was a pair of embroidered silk shoes worn by a Chinese woman last century. The shoes were so…