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Pappworth

Health

The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients

In the 1960s, British medics took sometimes fatal liberties with unsuspecting patients in the name of science. Maurice Pappworth wasn't having any of it

Features

syringes

Health

How 'stem cell' clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments

Insight

curare

Health

The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia

Features

Close-up of a human eye

Health

Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes

News

Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

Health

Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

News

wound scanner

Technology

Wound scanner shows bacteria glowing if your body is infected

News

A box for transporting human tissue

Health

England’s shift to opt-out organ donation will save many lives

Comment

Anti-vaccination protest

Health

Anti-vax views must not derail France's compulsory vaccine law

Comment

Hospital

Health

A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure

Comment

Brain scans

Health

Artificial embryonic stem cells tested in people for first time

A type of “virgin birth” stem cell could be as powerful as embryonic stem cells but without the same ethical objections, and are being tested for Parkinson’s

News

Health

Digital drug tells your doctor when you've taken your medicine

News

Health

Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy

News

Life

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

News

Health

Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads

Features