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Last minute offer may avert next week’s doctor strike
Next week's strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal.The doctors' union has agreed to put the offer to members over the coming days - if they support...
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MIT study shows how vision can be rebooted in adults with amblyopia
In the vision disorder amblyopia (commonly known as “lazy eye”), impaired vision in one eye during development...
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Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
Microscopic structures seen in the fossilised skin of a sauropod suggest that these giant dinosaurs may have been as...
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Jennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
“Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?” asked Jennifer Lewis ScD ’91 at...
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The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal
I was wondering, as I began working on this story, whether to eat my subject as part of the...
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Bad H3N2 flu season: Should I buy a vaccine this year?
Michelle RobertsDigital health editorGetty ImagesFlu has come early this year and experts predict it could be a particularly nasty season because a new strain of the virus is circulating. The H3N2 "subclade K" variant is a mutated strain of...
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Maternity care failings ‘much worse’ than anticipated, says head of national review
Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondentGetty ImagesStreeting said the update from Baroness Amos "demonstrates that too many families have been let down, with devastating consequences"."I know that NHS staff are dedicated professionals who want the best for mothers and babies, and...
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Prognostic tool could help clinicians identify high-risk cancer patients
Aggressive T-cell lymphoma is a rare and devastating form of blood cancer with a very low five-year...
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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us
Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a...
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California warns against foraging mushrooms after cluster of poisonings, 1 death
An urgent advisory warning people against eating foraged mushrooms was issued by the California Department of Public Health on Friday due to recent amatoxin poisonings.As of Friday, there were 21 poisonings confirmed by the California...
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Five arrested over plot to attack German Christmas market
Five men have been arrested in Germany suspected of being involved in a plot to drive a vehicle into...