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patient wired up with electrodes

Health

Maverick or monster? The controversial pioneer of brain zapping

In the 1950s, psychiatrist Robert Heath planted electrodes in people's brains to treat mental illness, creating a legacy that divides opinion to this day

Features

Child in hospital bed

Health

Three critically ill children helped by speedy genome sequencing

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A brain scan

Health

First anatomical evidence of several types of schizophrenia

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Technology

Electrodes fitted behind your ear can make you walk faster

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man & woman in diner

Health

Being in a relationship really does seem to make you fatter

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Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

Life

Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

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A baby being kissed on either cheek by two women

Health

Allow lesbians to use 'three-parent' baby IVF to have children

Comment

Cancer cells

Health

Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time

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Food in supermarket trolley

Health

England needs to go on a diet, but new calorie plan won’t work

Analysis

A supermarket shelf stocked with different cans and jars

Health

Don't hate all processed foods - they make modern life possible

There's a danger that if society condemns all processed food as bad then research into its many potential benefits will be hampered, warns Nicola Temple

Comment

Life

Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Health

Almost every antidepressant headline you'll read today is wrong

Analysis

Health

Cycling in later life makes you less likely to have a bad fall

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Health

Cases of measles in Europe have quadrupled in just one year

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