Kaatsu increasingly is drawing athletes seeking a quicker recovery from injuries and regular people hoping to get a bigger payback from their usual workout.

A groundbreaking but controversial gene editing technology is accelerating a push to eradicate Malaria, with scientists recently identifying two ways to block mosquitoes from transmitting the killer disease.

Heating tumors up by just a few degrees appears to help the body fight some types of cancer more effectively, new research has shown. Increasing body temperature is an ages old treatment known as hyperthermia, and has been used to treat tumors and other diseases since the days of Hippocrates.

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