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Oxycodone bottle and US flag

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US opioid crisis: 100,000 overdose deaths may have gone uncounted

A new analysis suggests that 100,000 overdose deaths in the US due to unspecified drugs were actually caused by opioids 鈥� bringing the total death count to more than 450,000 people

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Gut bacteria may be responsible for bowel disorders including cancers

Hand-washing can help you avoid catching the coronavirus

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Coronavirus: What you need to know to prepare for a covid-19 pandemic

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Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness

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Coronavirus is a pandemic in all but name as the infection goes global

Woman having her temperature taken

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Covid-19: Why won’t the WHO officially declare a coronavirus pandemic?

People in intensive care can be unable to say what treatment they want

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Exclusive: Brain scans used to read minds of intensive care patients

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Woman urinates alcohol without drinking due to yeast in her bladder

Tedros Ghebreyesu at a covid-19 press conference in Geneva today

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The WHO still isn鈥檛 describing covid-19 as a pandemic

Police check movement into and out of Casalpusterlengo, Italy, as part of efforts to contain the virus

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Covid-19: Our chance to contain the coronavirus may already be over

We don鈥檛 know the sources of many of the covid-19 cases in South Korea and Italy, suggesting the virus is now spreading untraceably among communities

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We now know how much our genes influence the risk of contracting HIV

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CRISPR safety switch can make cells self-destruct if they go rogue

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We don’t know how covid-19 spread on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

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Close-up image of brain cancer cells wins photography prize