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The year's best pictures from the world of medicine

By David Stock

15 October 2009

Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

A bird-of-paradise flower gets the Wellcome treatment

(Image: Annie Cavanagh and Dave McCarthy)

Wellcome Images is part of the Wellcome Trust, a charity that funds health research. For ten years it has for pictures that creatively explore the fields of medicine, social history, healthcare and biology.

See: The best images from the Wellcome Image awards 2009

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