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Health News Digest: Ig Nobel Prize 2017

Tina Carmillia

25-Sep-17 16:00

Health News Digest: Ig Nobel Prize 2017

We discuss the latest in health news. This week, we focus our attention to some of winners from the recent Ig Nobel Prize, which honours research that first makes people laugh, and then make them think.

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0:00 - Intro

2:25 - Peace Prize (Link) and Anatomy Prize (Link)

10:10 - Medicine Prize (Link), Cognition Prize (Link) and Obstetrics Prize (Link)


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