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Engineering is vital for medical innovation – we need to close the skills gap
For decades, advances in engineering have been essential to some of medicines greatest innovations. But if the current global skills…
The rough guide to scanning
A consultant radiologist explains how tell your MRI from your CT and normal ultrasound from an echocardiogram
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The pancreas is a leaf-shaped gland about 10 centimetres long situated just under the stomach. It produces digestive juices in…
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