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Smoking & Heart Disease. Does music help you run better? The genetics of sexual behaviour.

Healthy hearts in the workplace.  How smoking bans have dramatically improved heart disease. The genetics of sexual behaviour, and how music can help you run better.

Claudia Hammond talks to the president of the World Heart Federation about their campaign to make the workplace more healthy for our hearts.  

Several new studies have revealed how the simple act of banning smoking in public places, has had a dramatic effect on the number of heart attacks.  

Sarah Parfitt finds out why music could help you run better.  

Could the age you first have sex be written in your genes, and a new study that has shown learning in people who are only minimally conscious.

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