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The only way is ethics

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Diet and cancer risk – tackling a meaty research topic

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How to set up a trial in nine days

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Large studies, small footprint

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Keeping your heart in the best possible health

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Statins: finding safety in numbers

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Many hands make better trials: cutting cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease

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Balancing the benefits: radiation, radiotherapy and cancer risk

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Tiny lives

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Celebrating 15 years of UK Biobank

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Our contribution to the COVID-19 response

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Crossing continents – The China Kadoorie Biobank

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One in a million – the story of the Million Women Study

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Dementia risk factors – untangling fact from fiction

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A tale of three trials: the impact of COVID-19 on clinical research

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Hospital or ‘hospital at home’ – what’s best for older people?

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Where medicine meets mathematics

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Every little helps – how we’re transforming breast cancer survival

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Are plant-based diets good for your health and the planet?

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Healthy policies, healthy people

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The role of remote technologies in healthcare

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