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Hospital screen

Health

Touching personal medical stories are no substitute for science

Routine screening for prostate cancer seems like a good thing, but for every life saved many more are blighted by unnecessary treatments

Leader

Greenpeace boat

Technology

Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium

Regulars

grave markers in Liberia

Health

The End of Epidemics: It's all about the money

Culture

Richardson

Health

How medicine got too good for its own good

Features

Congestion charge can cut childhood asthma attacks by half

Earth

Congestion charge can cut childhood asthma attacks by half

News

A scan of a brain and its blood vessels

Health

Miniature human brains with their own blood vessels grown in lab

News

Ten ‘one-stop shop’ cancer diagnosis centres planned for England

Health

Ten ‘one-stop shop’ cancer diagnosis centres planned for England

News

Tallin

Health

Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents

News

A surgeon in virtual reality

Technology

Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

News

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Life

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine

News

Health

DNA sequencing of babies is here: Should it be available to all?

Comment

Physics

One year until Brexit: 7 big issues that must be solved

Comment

Health

Autoimmune disorder lupus may be triggered by body’s bacteria

News

Health

The future of HIV

Features