Stories
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The 96th Street divide: why there’s so much diabetes in Harlem
In East Harlem, four times as many people have diabetes as in the neighbouring Upper East Side. Meera Senthilingam meets the New Yorkers stopping poverty from being a death sentence.
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The Broken Calorie. A conversation with Gastropod
We are just beginning to understand that a calorie isn’t just a calorie. We speak to Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod.
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The animals that sniff out TB, cancer and landmines
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You can train your body into thinking it’s had medicine
Jo Marchant asks if we can harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs.
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What’s wrong with Craig Venter?
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Why the calorie is broken
Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod investigate.
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The end of the calorie
In this episode of the Gastropod podcast, Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore the calorie.
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The science of menopause and menstruation. Rose George in conversation
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Suicide of the Ceasefire Babies
In Northern Ireland, more people took their own lives in the 16 years after the Troubles than died during them. Why? Lyra McKee finds out.
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Psychedelic therapy
Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine again.
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LSD’s medical comeback
In a town in Switzerland, people with cancer are taking LSD.