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Vitamin D supplements and flu "Vitamin D is better than vaccines at preventing flu," reported The Times. The newspaper said that children's risk of getting flu could be halved if they take vitamin D, a finding that has implications for flu epidemics.

'Grow back limbs' claim premature A genetic discovery means that "damaged human limbs could one day regrow by themselves", according to the Daily Mirror. The reported research found that switching off a particular gene in mice meant that they could grow healthy tissue to repl

Baldness and prostate cancer risk "Hair loss 'almost halves the risk of prostate cancer'," the Daily Mail reported. These findings come from a study that looked at past hair loss in about 2,000 men aged between 35 and 74, about half of whom had prostate cancer.

Drugs for halting diabetes tested "Two key treatments do not halt diabetes in people with early signs of the disease," BBC News reported. The story is based on a large trial assessing the effects of two approved diabetes medications, valsartan and nateglinide, on the developm

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