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Michelle RobertsDigital health editorGetty ImagesPeople who have cosmetic filler injections in their face should be warned of the risk of a dangerous complication involving blocked arteries that can lead to skin loss and even blindness due to damaged blood...

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having...

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was...

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Imagine you’re standing in front of a closed door. Behind it is a teenager’s bedroom, and your task is...

Andy GiddingsWest MidlandsFamily photoThe consultant who pioneered Papillon, Prof Sun Myint from The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Merseyside, said: "It is wonderful that patients will now be given a choice of treatment and many of them will have a...

The International Space Station (ISS) may soon become slightly less international. Russia’s only launch site capable of sending humans...

The British Medical Association has announced a fresh round of strikes in England in the long-running pay dispute.Resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, will stage a five-day walkout from 17 December.This will be the 14th strike by...

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Megan DaviesandCarwyn John,BBC WalesRay BurmistonDr Olwen Williams remembers learning about the first cases of HIV being reported in the UK in 1980s, when she was finishing her medical degree in Liverpool. She remembers being unable to find any information...