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Why I’m walking round with a lentil in my eye
A cataract operation left me with pseudophakia – the happy condition of having an artificial lens
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The wellness scam economy of the algorithm age
Former Newsnight journalist Deborah Cohen’s new book explores how influencer culture and wellness marketing have created a boom market in dodgy health advice
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The ‘super flu’ that wasn’t
An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains
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Trump, Kennedy and a gross debacle over autism
Trump and Kennedy want a simple answer to this very complex problem. And it must be an answer that fits their scepticism of much mainstream medicine
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The sick age of conspirituality
Egged on by Trump and RFK Jr, a deadly blend of conspiracy theory and wellness woo-woo is going mainstream
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The cancer vaccines under threat from MAGA
Researchers have developed a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer, but its future is uncertain due to Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Healing through harmony: 20 years of the European Doctors Orchestra
The EDO celebrated the milestone with a public charity concert at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead
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The ethics and risks of editing our DNA
Polygenic editing – making changes to DNA – is now a reality. But are the medical benefits outweighed by the ethical risks and hidden dangers?
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The moral dilemmas of embryo models
The UK’s regulator, HFEA, is having to grapple with the scientific, ethical and even philosophical challenges associated with synthetic embryo research
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Franz Mesmer: The remarkable Austrian physician who unwittingly invented hypnosis
CHARLIE CONNELLY on a charming and bewitchingly charismatic medical practitioner whose methods were declared hokum after long keeping the elite mesmerised