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Alice Park at TIME investigates how Doctors are embracing creative ways to use food to improve health and prevent disease.

Paper published in The Lancet finds no evidence of a temporal relationship between cannabis use and pain severity or pain interference, and no evidence that cannabis use reduced prescribed opioid use or increased rates of opioid discontinuation.

Alex Matthews-King at The Independent: Researchers have shown it’s possible to temporarily block the brain from forming new memories using a combination of sound waves, viruses and drugs.

Katherine J. Wu at Smithsonian.com: seminal research reveals that sperm change their cargo as they travel the reproductive tract—and the differences can have consequences for fertility.

Sarah Knapton at The Telegraph look at a major new research from Yale University and Oxford that suggests exercising for 90 minutes a day or more could make mental health worse.

Sarah Knapton at The Telegraph reports that humans do not age because of wear and tear but because biological processes - which once helped us - fail to shut off. This new research comes from University College London, Lancaster University and Queen Mary University of London.

Laurel Ives at BBC Health investigates how too much iron in the blood, or haemochromatosis, is a little-known, debilitating condition, often undiagnosed.

Fiona McMillan at Forbes Magazine reports that researchers at UCLA have discovered something unique about the way pre-cancerous and early stage lung cancers consume sugar, and this could aid in detection and treatment

Michael Greger, M.D. at NutritionFacts.org investigates how sweet potatoes are not just one of the healthiest and cheapest sources of nutrition; the predominant protein is a type of protease inhibitor that may have cancer-fighting properties.

Michael Greger, M.D. at NutritionFacts.org explores how “curcumin-free” turmeric, from which the so-called active ingredient has been removed, may be as effective or even more potent

From WIRED: The next medical frontier is extending the human lifespan. But changing the definition of ageing is still a huge obstacle

From NutritionFacts.org: Michael Greger, M.D. asks what role do soy phytoestrogens play in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer?

From National Geographic: long overlooked by Western science, traditional Chinese treatments are yielding cutting-edge cures.

From National Geographic: To feed a growing global population and curtail climate change, scientists say we need to radically change our food systems

From The Independent: All cancers may be triggered by a rare rogue stem cell that has learned how to cheat death, according to new research.

From Oxford University: According to a recent paper, Cannabis use among adolescents is found to be associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety in adulthood.

From the New Statesman: Could the placebo effect work in surgery? When a doctor wanted to investigate – by opening patients up but not operating – some said it was criminal. But the resulting study has shaken the medical world