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What drove the WHO to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador?

Health

What drove the WHO to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador?

The new head of the World Health Organization caused a backlash by handing Zimbabwe's despotic leader a role. Why did he make such a misstep, wonders Luke Allen

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Health

WHO reverses decision to elect Robert Mugabe as ambassador

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A woman holding her lower back in pain

Health

Chronic back pain stem cell treatment could cut need for opioids

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surgery to confirm endometriosis

Health

A home test kit may let you diagnose endometriosis years earlier

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Health

Self-harming has risen dramatically among UK teenage girls

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Health

Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder

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How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking

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How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking

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Health

Sex addiction isn’t an illness, treating it as one is a bad idea

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Air pollution blamed for 500,000 early deaths in Europe in 2014

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Air pollution blamed for 500,000 early deaths in Europe in 2014

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Smartphone lets you see round corners by light flicker on floor

Tracking tiny variations in light reflected at the base of a wall can let you count people in a room and see where they are moving

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Humans

This AI can tell true hate speech from harmless banter

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Your ‘risk intelligence’ decides how much of a daredevil you are

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Health

Different meditation types train distinct parts of your brain

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