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A common smoking cessation drug doesn't appear to work for shisha smokers.
Alexander Fleming's work has helped countless people over the last nine decades.
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We don't control our heart – it's an involuntary muscle – but special pacemaker cells help keep it ticking away.
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Abusive bosses might be to blame for the growing epidemic of mental ill health among UK workers.
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Expert fact checks claim that cannabis cures cancer.
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A historian tells what really inspired the NHS.
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