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Oozing white mucus from giant salamanders makes excellent medical glue
Chinese giant salamanders secrete sticky mucus and it can be used as glue to close wounds after surgery more effectively than artificial adhesives
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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
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It’s time to change our approach to ‘psychosomatic’ illness
Doctors have started making sense of a group of mystery conditions where people experience symptoms, but medical tests suggest nothing is physically wrong
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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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Broken bones in mice healed faster by heat-releasing implant
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