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John Snow

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John Snow

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations.
Computer illustration of human nerve cells in the brain of a patient with Parkinson's disease

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Parkinson's disease

High blood pressure

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High blood pressure

Flu

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Flu

Cancer

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Cancer

What is CRISPR?

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What is CRISPR?

Gene therapy

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Gene therapy

Undated handout photo issued by the British Heart Foundation of heart patches that could provide a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people after suffering a heart attack. Tuesday June 4, 2019. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said the patches - which are grown in a lab and help repair damaged hearts - could one day provide an off-the-shelf treatment for patients.

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Stem cell patch may help repair damage caused by heart attacks

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Alzheimer's disease

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Alzheimer's disease

CPR makes someone more likely to survive cardiac arrest

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Women who have cardiac arrests are more likely to die than men

Women who have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital are less likely to be resuscitated by a bystander and more likely to die than men

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How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart

Regulars

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A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don’t know why

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Technology

Battery-free pacemaker harvests energy from pig hearts in first tests

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Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them

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