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Maternity care crisis worsening across the USA
Published: November 2023 - The LancetWhat happened to the Human Brain Project?
Published: October 2023 - The LancetProfile: Orla McCourt
Published: October 2023 - The Lancet HaematologyCOP27: a "collective failure"
Published: November 2022 - The LancetPreparing children for operations
Published: January 2022 - The Lancet Child & Adolescent HealthProfile: Matthew Fowler
Published: May 2021 - The Lancet HaematologyExperts call to include prisons in COVID-19 vaccine plans
Published: December 2020 - The LancetThe neurons that appeared from nowhere
Published: September 2020 - NautilusLoneliness in children and young people in the UK
Published: August 2020 - The Lancet Child & Adolescent HealthResearchers detect land animals using DNA in nearby water bodies
Published: April 2020 - The ScientistBeetle larvae can survive on polystyrene alone
Published: March 2020 - The ScientistScotland to ban heading in children's football
Published: January 2020 - The LancetHow scientists are saving the dodo's pink cousin
Published: August 2017 - DiscoverA handy way to solve crime
Published: May 2017 - DiscoverHealthcare comes to standstill in east Aleppo as last hospitals are destroyed
Published: November 2016 - The BMJMachine learning will keep us healthy longer
Published: January 2016 - The Wired World in 2016Teens didn't start smoking more weed after medical pot was legalized
Published: June 2015 - The VergeCrowdfunding for medical research picks up pace
Published: September 2014 - The LancetHow investigators unravelled Europe's biggest-ever fake-medicine scam
Published: December 2011 - Wired UKNature group journal retracts two papers after cancer researcher was found to have falsified data
Published: August 2011 - The BMJWakefield's first try
Published: June 2010 - Slate MagazineSecret of Scotland's shrinking sheep solved
Published: July 2009 - ScienceMouse study prompts experts to revisit the promise of leptin
Published: February 2009 - Nature MedicineControversy continues over safety of bisphenol A
Published: March 2012 - The LancetTackling the booming trade in counterfeit drugs
Published: November 2010 - The LancetPakistan sees first suspected cases of cholera
Published: August 2010 - The BMJUK election: the main parties' health policies
Published: May 2010 - The LancetTop 100 stories of 2009: hope for HIV vaccine
Published: January 2010 - Discover MagazineNew hope for prison health in the UK
Published: February 2010 - The LancetNumber of swine flu patients going into intensive care is rising
Published: November 2009 - The BMJCash infusion for HIV microbicides
Published: May 2009 - Nature BiotechnologyDiary of a somebody
Published: June 2006 - The Lancet Neurology

Nayanah Siva is a science writer, based in London.