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The year's best pictures from the world of medicine

By David Stock

15 October 2009

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A bird-of-paradise flower gets the Wellcome treatment

(Image: Annie Cavanagh and Dave McCarthy)

Wellcome Images is part of the Wellcome Trust, a charity that funds health research. For ten years it has awarded prizes for pictures that creatively explore the fields of medicine, social history, healthcare and biology.

See: The best images from the Wellcome Image awards 2009

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