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Ivermectin tablets arranged in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned??Americans against taking??ivermectin, a drug usually used on animals, as a treatment or prevention for Covid-19. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Ivermectin ‘buyers clubs’ want to use the drug to treat covid-19

Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven drug for preventing or treating covid-19. Now people in the UK are trying to find ways to use it

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Shadow of a girl on a swing

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How will the UK鈥檚 Universal Credit cut affect the health of children?

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Auckland's strict lockdown will start to ease on 6 October

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Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covid strategy?

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Close-up of gay couple hands on table

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Sexual desire may be triggered by gentle touch sensors in your skin

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Sarah works in her community garden on Saturday, September 25, 2021. PHOTOS BY JOHN LOK / for UCSF

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Woman鈥檚 depression treated by an implant responding to brain patterns

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Knee osteoarthritis

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Lubricating arthritic knees with synthetic fluid may help tissue heal

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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021.

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Medicine Nobel awarded for explaining how we sense heat and touch

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Breast cancer cells

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First map of proteins in tumour cells pinpoints cancer therapy targets

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Medical pills in white, blue and other colors

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Coming off antidepressants risks relapse 鈥� but so does staying on them

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A vaccination clinic at an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, in April.

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

Black and Indigenous people and people of colour are more at risk from covid-19, and new modelling suggests that prioritising vaccines based on race or neighbourhood in addition to age could have led to fewer deaths

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Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami linked to increased risk of dementia

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The stem cell revolution isn’t what you think it is

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Should you get a covid vaccine booster shot if you’re offered one?

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Secrets of a long and healthy life reside in your gut microbiome

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