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Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad
The rapid rise of robot-aided surgery ignores the fact that high-tech gadgets don’t always improve treatment outcomes but do increase costs
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Oozing white mucus from giant salamanders makes excellent medical glue
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How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart
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Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test
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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite
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Sales of opioid painkiller codeine have halved in Australia
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Anti-ageing has often been seen as quack science. Not any more
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Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer
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We must all work to avoid disputes over the care of very ill children
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3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions
Rare and genetic conditions can show up in children’s faces – a 3D face mapping tool could help diagnose them more quickly
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It’s time to change our approach to ‘psychosomatic’ illness
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Move over, DNA. Life’s other code is more subtle and far more powerful
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AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks
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Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos
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