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A freak allergy attack led to a surreal near-death experience for nurse Julia Evans, and she passed into an otherworldly ...

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Heart from organ donor restarted outside the body — technique offers new source of organs Current procedures for reviving a heart for transplant are ethically fraught or expensive.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO), along with health and climate experts, have warned that extended heatwaves are no longer ...

Mapping the vast number of environmental and lifestyle factors that influence our health is an enormous task — but one ...