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Artwork showing different ways of visualising the brain

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Nice prize for Alzheimer's work, shame about the lack of a cure

The prestigious annual Brain prize has gone to work on Alzheimer's disease. That's fine, but the failure to find new treatments is worrying, says Jacqui Wise

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Chemotherapy

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Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo

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A woman

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How you speak predicts if psychedelic therapy will help you

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A baby being breastfed

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Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England

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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England

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Two men standing in a vape shop, one inspecting products, the other behind the counter exhaling smoke

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We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

Analysis

The EMA building

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Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all

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A pregnant woman with a glass of water in one hand and a pill in the other

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Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

Analysis

patient

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Trump's 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here's a better one

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addiction artwork

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The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction

The "cuddle chemical" oxytocin boosts social bonds. Soon a version of it will be tested in pill form to see if it can reset the brain wiring that gets us hooked

Features

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Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

Analysis

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Science helped cause the opioid crisis – now it must make amends

Leader

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The doctor who took on big pharma to stem the US opioid epidemic

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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