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Surgeons' Safety Checklist
A look at aims to standardise and extend surgeons' safety checklists
Surgeons' safety checklists - a look at a new checklist intended to reduce mistakes even further.
Also: living with cardiomyopathy - one sufferer describes how she copes with having an internally-fitted defibrillator.
Is it ever OK to give your children sugar pills as a placebo?
The dangers of re-using needles - the solution might be syringes that only work once.
Synaesthesia - the strange condition where you can see time laid out in space.
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Health Check
Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.