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Is your job bad for your teeth?

Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?

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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me

Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.

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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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  • An AIDS fact sheet by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph.
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A dripping blood transfusion bag with the warning 'ensure it is AIDS free' and a pink ticket bearing the lettering 'Certified HIV free'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Two personified penises, one of them wearing a condom to show their value as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis wearing a condom and safety equipment and another, unprotected, with injuries bandaged up, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis holding a condom in a cosmetic jar, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis wearing a condom in bed to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis throwing a lifebelt in the form of a condom to a drowning penis, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A personified penis advocating the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A penis with a condom appearing on a laptop computer to advocate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
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