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    Ambiguous loss: a different kind of grief

    Have you lost a loved one who is still a part of your life in some way?

  2. In Iran, one in five infected by coronavirus

    Study reveals prevalence of coronavirus infection across Iran, with 72 percent in one city

  3. Gene therapy for sickle cell disease

    Gene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease

  4. Milestone in HIV prevention for women

    African clinical study finds an injection every 8 weeks protects women from HIV infection

  5. Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success

    Good news about Covid vaccines keeps coming but can everyone benefit from the successes?

  6. Measles outbreak threat due to Covid

    Disruption to measles immunisation raises the risk of large outbreaks in Africa

  7. Covid vaccine 鈥�90% effective鈥�

    How big a deal is the 鈥�90% effective鈥� coronavirus vaccine?

  8. Covid-19 vaccines: Unknowns and dilemmas

    What we will not know when the first Covid-19 vaccines are deployed

  9. Covid-19 plasma therapy trial results 鈥榙isappointing鈥�

    Indian trial finds that convalescent plasma therapy has little benefit against Covid-19

  10. Do the Covid-19 drugs work?

    Remdesivir shown to be ineffective in global trial of drugs used to treat Covid-19

  11. Have you ever hugged your doctor?

    What role does touch play in health care?

  12. Touch Test results

    World's largest study on the topic of touch

  13. How long should Covid quarantine last?

    Does cutting quarantine to a week increase the risk of missing cases of Covid-19?

  14. The latest on global Coronavirus cases

    Covid cases continue to surge in the US as countries sign up to help vaccinate the world

  15. Have we reached the peak of Wellness?

    Could doctors learn a trick or two from Wellness?

  16. What is Wellness and does it make you healthy?

    Where does the idea of Wellness come from? And who stands to gain from it?

  17. Covid-19 sniffer dogs being trained

    How a smelly t-shirt could help dogs sniff out coronavirus

  18. Newborn deaths in US

    Black newborn deaths in the US

  19. Covid immunity clues from a fishing boat in the Pacific

    How a type of antibody found in three fishermen is helping Covid-19 research

  20. Women鈥檚 reproductive rights threatened by Covid

    Improvements to women鈥檚 lives because of birth control advances are put at risk by Covid

  21. Choirs and Covid

    Do choirs spread coronavirus?

  22. Covid testing cuts Apache death rate

    Covid testing in homes of White Mountain Apaches helps reduce death rate from Covid-19

  23. What鈥檚 behind a drop in premature births during lockdown?

    Irish and Danish doctors spot a fall in premature births during Covid pandemic

  24. Incredible tale of Covid family survival in Spain

    Three generations of a family hospitalised in Spain because of Covid

  25. Cancer deaths rise predicted after Covid-19

    Experts warn cancer deaths will rise because of the pandemic lockdown

  26. Double threat of Covid-19 and flu

    Flu vaccine orders up as US anticipates winter Covid surge

  27. Faster cheaper Covid testing in Rwanda

    Rwandan scientists on their pooled testing approach to Covid which slashes costs and time

  28. Covid-19: Steroid drug reduces deaths

    Trials of a steroid show it can reduce the deaths of those on ventilators by one third

  29. Covid-19: Second waves

    Are increases in Covid cases signs of second waves?

  30. Pain and the brain

    New understanding about pain

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