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  Home truths about high blood pressure

  8 Jan 2012:

  Four years ago, Mark Honigsbaum was told he had high blood pressure. He isn't overweight, doesn't smoke and eats healthily – so what brought it on? He explores the facts and figures surrounding one of the western world's biggest killers

• Sheena Robertson obituary

  25 Dec 2011: Other lives: Sympathetic osteopath who started out as a magazine stylist

• UK plastic surgery statistics: breasts up, ears down

  21 Dec 2011:

  UK plastic surgery is on the increase, despite the recession. Find out which procedures are going up - and which are down

• The nocebo effect: Wellcome Trust science writing prize essay

  13 Nov 2011:

  Penny Sarchet discusses research on the 'nocebo' effect in her winning essay for the Wellcome Trust science writing prize, awarded in association with the Guardian and Observer

• Alessandra Luchini: nanoparticle traps detect diseases before our bodies do

  23 Oct 2011:

  A brilliant molecular-level test for signs of disease developed by Alessandra Luchini promises far-reaching implications, reports Ian Tucker

• Little red phone box is a lifeline once again

  17 Oct 2011:

  One of the UK's smallest parishes has a bright idea for bringing its kiosk back into action

• Carl Wood obituary

  16 Oct 2011: Top Australian IVF pioneer behind the use of frozen embryos

• Liverpool pays tribute to prison camp survivors

  14 Oct 2011:

  A pioneering memorial recalls those who came home from Japanese captivity, but often had a second, psychological, war to win

• NHS reforms: A medical student's view

  12 Oct 2011:

  Rita Issa, 23, a final year medical student in London believes reforms are being pushed through in a hurry

• Philip Lee obituary

  9 Oct 2011: Other lives: Physician who pioneered the development of adult services in Britain for patients with inherited metabolic disorders

• Reel therapy: can films make us feel better?

  21 Sep 2011: Ruth Jamieson: The restorative powers of cinema enjoyed a starring role at the Wellcome Trust's celebration of 75 years of medicine on screen

• Baruj Benacerraf obituary

  18 Sep 2011: Immunologist and geneticist who shared the Nobel prize

• The fine art of medical diagnosis

  11 Sep 2011:

  Making 'ward rounds' at the National Gallery, doctors have uncovered murder, syphilis and all manner of ills, writes Robin McKie

• Leslie Le Quesne obituary

  28 Aug 2011: Professor of surgery at the Middlesex hospital

• Anecdotes are great – if they convey data accurately

  29 Jul 2011:

  Ben Goldacre: Bad science: Channel 4 reported that a study in the Lancet showed a new drug had reduced the symptoms of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Unfortunately, the study shows no such thing

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