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An Ebola treatment centre in Butembo

Health

Ebola breakthrough: two drugs could treat up to 90 per cent of cases

A drug trial has found two experimental drugs for Ebola to be so effective that scientists have stopped the trial early so that more people can receive these drugs

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Ibuprofen has been linked to changes in bacteria in a lab experiment

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Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

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Emergency treatment for overdoses may be improving

Health

Does the drop in US drug deaths mean the opioid crisis is ending?

Analysis

Pharmacist choosing medicines

Health

Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments

Analysis

Amyloidosis involves the build-up of sticky protein

Health

Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use

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Cannabis dispensary

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US teens may be finding it harder to buy cannabis after legalisation

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Psychedelic

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Psilocybin

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Antibiotic resistance

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Medicine

A medicine should make patients better, alleviate symptoms and heal disease, or a combination of all of these

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