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Health

Medicinal cannabis will be available in the UK from next month

The UK Home Secretary has announced that doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis from next month following a specially commissioned review

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Health

Nobody can agree about antidepressants. Here’s what you need to know

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Health

Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction

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Health

Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links

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Life

A startling sexual side-effect to yawning – and other past stories

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Health

Opioid crisis: powerful but non-addictive drug could replace morphine

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Technology

A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks

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We dream even when under general anaesthetic

Health

We dream even when under general anaesthetic

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Women in England to be allowed to have abortions at home

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Mind

Why taking ayahuasca is like having a near-death experience

A psychedelic drug produces effects similar to near-death experiences. The finding suggests changes to brain activity may explain such paranormal phenomena

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Health

Ecstasy-like drugs might relieve social difficulties in autism

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Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK

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Life

Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves

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Health

The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma

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