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Page last updated at 13:37 GMT, Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Image of a man's brain with a symbolic lightening flash
Dangerous epilepsy myths
People hold dangerous misconceptions about epilepsy and what to do if they see a person have a seizure, according to neuropsychologist Dr Sallie Baxendale.
Stem cells
How to boost medical research
Patients who need heart treatment should be obliged to take part in ground-breaking stem cell research, says scientist Professor Anthony Mathur.

Pharmacist choosing a drug Pharmacists need better technology
Pharmacists have been shouldering an increasing number of challenges without any increase in staffing.

Man with hand on head, posed by model 'Stop pushing drugs at depressed'
Despite a large increase in talking therapy doctors still push drugs at depressed patients says an expert in psychiatry.

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It no longer shocks me at how little truth people know and yet they always seem to remember the myths

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