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young man feeling pain in shoulder

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Massage gun for mice shows how pummelling tissue boosts muscle repair

Massage really does help damaged muscles heal, because pummelling the tissue clears it of immune cells that interfere with tissue regrowth, a study in mice suggests

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Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria

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Drug treatment for Lyme disease could lead to its eradication

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Ivermectin tablets arranged in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned??Americans against taking??ivermectin, a drug usually used on animals, as a treatment or prevention for Covid-19. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Ivermectin 'buyers clubs' want to use the drug to treat covid-19

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Shadow of a girl on a swing

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How will the UK’s Universal Credit cut affect the health of children?

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Auckland's strict lockdown will start to ease on 6 October

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Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covid strategy?

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Close-up of gay couple hands on table

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Sexual desire may be triggered by gentle touch sensors in your skin

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Sarah works in her community garden on Saturday, September 25, 2021. PHOTOS BY JOHN LOK / for UCSF

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Woman’s depression treated by an implant responding to brain patterns

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Knee osteoarthritis

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Lubricating arthritic knees with synthetic fluid may help tissue heal

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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021.

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Medicine Nobel awarded for explaining how we sense heat and touch

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Breast cancer cells

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First map of proteins in tumour cells pinpoints cancer therapy targets

Treating cancer may one day be easier using a map that reveals how hundreds of proteins interact with one another in cancer cells

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Coming off antidepressants risks relapse – but so does staying on them

Analysis

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

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Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami linked to increased risk of dementia

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The stem cell revolution isn't what you think it is

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