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Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills – but the evidence is not so clear-cut

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Cholesterol wars: We may be fighting the wrong enemy

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Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice

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Injection could permanently lower cholesterol by changing DNA

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Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain's activity without damaging it

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Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

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‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

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First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

The last Ebola epidemic was the worst ever. But it seems the virus quickly learns to spread more readily, which may make the next outbreak even harder to stop

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World war on superbugs can only be won by a UN-led global effort

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Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins

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Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction

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The scary reality of medical U-turns, and how to stop them

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