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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs

The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.

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The search for a cure for endometriosis

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’

I’m a painter, but I make worlds.

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  • Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women and Immunity.
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  • Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women and Immunity.
  • Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women and Immunity.
  • Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women and Immunity.
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  • Plain speaking about HIV and AIDS and how it affects women written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women.
  • Plain speaking about HIV and AIDS and how it affects women written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women.
  • Plain speaking about HIV and AIDS and how it affects women written for women by the experts - women. 1, Prevention / Positively Women.
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