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Perspectives: The flip side to multiple personalities

Life

Perspectives: The flip side to multiple personalities

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Fractured minds

Features

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Tune in turn off

Features

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Pill power

Opinion

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Science : Anticancer drug blocks DNA repair

News

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HIV locked out by mutated gene

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Holistic hazards - Millions of people in Britain turn to complementary medicine in the belief that it is risk-free. But a closer look shows that side effects are widespread

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Science : Knowing when to let go

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Give a drug a bad name... - Morphine is the world's most effective painkiller, yet because of its reputation as a dangerous drug it is rarely prescribed even to terminally ill patients

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Science : Dyslexia's broken bridge

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