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Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, about the worrying global rise in cancers in under-50s, and
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Despite research into a male contraceptive pill starting around the same time as its female counterpart, no product has ever
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The trillions of microbes living on and inside the human body are an important part of who we are, from
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