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heart disease

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Health

Can an online test really tell if you have a healthy heart?

Public Health England has launched an online “heart-age” test to reveal people’s risk of heart attack or stroke, but it may be overly simplistic

Analysis

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Technology

Subtle patterns in your typing could reveal early signs of Parkinson’s

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Women more likely to survive heart attacks if treated by female doctor

Health

Women more likely to survive heart attacks if treated by female doctor

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Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

Health

Quantum dots in brain could treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

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DNA reveals Romans helped spread TB across three continents

Humans

DNA reveals Romans helped spread TB across three continents

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Injecting new heart cells improves recovery from heart attacks

Health

Injecting new heart cells improves recovery from heart attacks

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Women going swimming

Health

Knowing your DNA can help you stick to a healthier lifestyle

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A wall of brain scans

Technology

AI can detect early signs of Parkinson's from brain scans alone

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Parkinson’s disease may be caused by virus that kills gut bugs

Health

Parkinson’s disease may be caused by virus that kills gut bugs

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Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax

Earth

Zambia to kill 2000 hippos because they might spread anthrax

Over the next five years 2000 hippos are to be culled in Zambia, supposedly to stop them giving people anthrax, but the cull may inadvertently fuel the trade in hippo ivory

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Health

Brains grow brand new neurons after experimental drug injection

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Life

Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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Life

Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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Earth

A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

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