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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

Efforts to turn everyday drugs into cancer treatments bring a glimmer of hope, but dangers of hype too

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Humans

May's force be with her

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Person empties out bottle of the painkiller OxyContin

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US could be set to tackle opioid painkiller epidemic at last

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Theresa May walking towards the door of Number 10 Downing Street

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Next PM Theresa May often demands the scientifically impossible

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Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers

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Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers

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Antidepressants on trial: Are they a wonder or a danger?

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someone writing a prescription

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Antidepressant drug use in England has doubled in a decade

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A tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider

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Huge newfound deposit of helium will keep MRI scanners running

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Two pictures of a beetle side by side showing the difference between images taken with left-handed and right-handed light. The beetle is bright in the left ahnd image and dark in the right hand image

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Nano-camera lens reveals the hidden mirror world of molecules

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Women leave the Russian Olympic Committee building which houses the headquarters of the All-Russian Athletics Federation in Moscow

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WADA report shows tricks Russian athletes use to skip drug tests

Never mind high-tech chemistry, sometimes the simplest methods can stop you getting caught for sports doping – like running away from the tester

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Microbubbles open brain's barrier to make chemo more effective

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Orlando massacre prompts call to ease gay blood donor rules

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If antidepressants don't work well, why are they so popular?

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The bizarre beauty of the objects that might save your life

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