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Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics

Health

Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics

The way in which a statistic is presented can entirely change how alarming it sounds. And too often, both newspapers and scientific journals choose the most alarming, but least informative, way

Analysis

A person looking at test tubes

Health

Blood test can spot DNA from eight different types of cancer

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vaping

Health

How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes?

Insight

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Health

Unsavory Truth review – exposing the food industry's abuse of science

Culture

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

James Wong: Is the nutrition in our crops declining?

Video

Emma Byrne: Swearing is good for you

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Emma Byrne: Swearing is good for you

Video

Kat Arney: Are you a genetic superhero?

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Kat Arney: Are you a genetic superhero?

Video

A person considers purchasing meat

Health

A meat tax may save thousands of lives and millions of dollars

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Health

Hormone helps regrow frog legs and may one day lead to a human therapy

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Health

Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice

A new way to deliver DNA to spinal nerve cells brings us a step closer to a gene therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Health

Your gut is full of neurons and they are replaced every 2 weeks

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Health

Why air travel makes deadly disease pandemics less likely

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Health

Health risks increase for babies born to fathers aged 45 or over

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Health

Parkinson’s disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain

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