Stories
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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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One view of human life taken, and reconciled by a prospect of heaven; Together with an Attempt towards the Right Direction of our Conduct for the Attainment of that Certain, Glorious, and Happy State. By Hugh Ferguson.
Ferguson, Hugh, clergyman.Date: [1743?]- Books
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A system of personal biologic examinations the condition of adequate medical and scientific conduct of life / George M. Gould.
Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.Date: [1900]- Videos
I will be.
Date: 1980- Film
I will be.
Date: 1980- Videos
The secret life of your body clock.
Date: 2009