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Artificial Hearts

A report on the latest attempt to develop the world's first fully artificial heart

A look at the latest attempt to create an artificial heart. Why are hearts so difficult to engineer?
Also: a look at organ transplants and global attitudes to selling organs. US psychiatrist Sally Satel speaks out in defence of buying organs.
The Oconet Project - how digital technology is being used to help treat cancer in Brazil.
Ezio Santos Filho on using antibiotics to prevent HIV sufferers contracting TB.
Living with chronic illness. One woman describes living with spondylolysis.

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