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Knowing doctors' death rates can't help you avoid a bad surgeon

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Knowing doctors' death rates can't help you avoid a bad surgeon

You might think publishing surgeons’ death rates helps you pick the best one, but the data isn’t statistically powerful enough to reveal which doctors are bad

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Ground Zero

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Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow

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price tag

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What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life

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brain slicing

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Immortalising human brains at the world's largest brain bank

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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mummified bug

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See the creepy-crawly stowaways in a 3000-year-old loaf of bread

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A woman jogging along a road

Health

Desk job death risk is eliminated by an hour's walk or cycle

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man holding patient's hand

Health

Should people who are not terminally ill have the right to die?

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Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension

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Smarter police interviews could help reduce racial tension

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A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen

Technology

A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen

From freezers in the basement to sheds in the garden, cryonics and the promise of a second life has captured many imaginations. Here are some of those stories

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9 things you need to know about cryogenically freezing your body

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Technology

Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen

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Humans

I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again

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Life

Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here's how it happens

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