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Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition

A report on the Caudwell Xtreme Everest medical research expedition

A look at the results found by a doctors' Mount Everest expedition to gain information about how intensive-care patients cope with low levels of oxygen.
Also: Dylan Evans on how it's possible to use financial prediction market methods to forecast future health problems
How the authorities in Botswana have been coping with cholera cases spreading into the country from Zimbabwe.
The science of pleasure, an interview with biologist Paul Martin about his book 'Sex, Drugs and Chocolate'.

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