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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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Rahim Esfandyarpour

Technology

Printed ‘lab on a chip’ costs a penny and catches disease early

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Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

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Blind people ‘see’ microscope images using touch-feedback device

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New HIV infections in gay men have dropped by a third in England

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Spotless mind: Manipulating the brain to rewrite memories

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Technology

Completely paralysed people use thoughts to say they are happy

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How LSD affects the brain and creates its trippy effect

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Should NHS limit spending on treatments for rare diseases?

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The Alzheimer's problem: Why we are struggling to find a cure

Touted breakthroughs keep coming to nothing. Are we close to a cure, or have we got the disease all wrong? The results of three trials should tell us

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Woman dies from infection resistant to all available antibiotics

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Preventing Big Cannabis: How to nip marijuana lobby in the bud

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Don’t judge drug funding on political grounds

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