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Doctors who prescribe homeopathy ignore other medical guidelines

Health

Doctors who prescribe homeopathy ignore other medical guidelines

Family doctors who offer homeopathy - not recommended by the NHS - are also more likely to practice other bad habits such as the overuse of antibiotics

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Blood pressure being taken

Health

New blood pressure guidelines could do more harm than good

Analysis

5 healthcare myths that can drive you to unneeded treatments

Health

5 healthcare myths that can drive you to unneeded treatments

Features

A surgeon in virtual reality

Technology

Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Life

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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Hospital oncology sign

Health

Our cancer strategies aren't working - it's time to change that

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A brain scan

Health

First anatomical evidence of several types of schizophrenia

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Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake

Health

Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake

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Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts

Technology

Virtual reality lets doctors guide you through your own guts

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Blood test

Health

There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

Researchers propose splitting diabetes into five subtypes instead of the current type 1 and type 2 diagnoses. It may help, but we need to know much more

Analysis

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Analysis

Health

Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

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Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

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Health

We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

Analysis

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