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Trigger warnings are taking over universities, but do they work?

Health

Trigger warnings are taking over universities, but do they work?

Talk of trigger warnings and microaggressions are sweeping through university campuses, but some researchers question whether they have any psychological basis

Insight

A baby being breastfed

Health

Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her baby

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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England

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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England

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Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisers

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Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisers

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Two men standing in a vape shop, one inspecting products, the other behind the counter exhaling smoke

Health

We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives

Analysis

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

Health

Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time

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Neurons in the brain

Health

First glimpse of how genes may cause mental health problems

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Venus fly trap

Life

Nano-claw snatches bacteria from blood like tiny Venus flytrap

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A pregnant woman with a glass of water in one hand and a pill in the other

Health

Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

Analysis

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

Health

Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems

Among men, half of the risk associated with smoking a pack of 20 comes from just the first cigarette

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Health

Drug that fools the womb could help stop painful periods

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Humans

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

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Health

Johann Hari doesn't know depression's real causes – no one does

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Health

Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes

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