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The BBC News website takes a look at some of the political words and phrases that made the headlines in 2008.

Chances of long-term survival after a heart transplant rise if the donor and recipient are the same sex, researchers say.

The European Commission is studying a wider use of airport X-ray machines that effectively peek under the clothing of passengers.

Medical students are to study 200 body parts bought from the anatomist Prof Gunther von Hagens.

US critics warn viewers of the crude humour in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' latest sketch show.

Cosmetic surgery clinics have been criticised by industry leaders for using misleading sales techniques.

Life-size paintings of two racehorses by celebrated artist George Stubbs hang side-by-side for the first time in Leeds.

Medical students train on a dummy which can vomit and sweat and moves and feels like a real patient.

Regular columnist Bill Thompson says the virtual world still needs a lot of work if it is to replace the real world.

A new study explains how the tiny ancestors of humans, apes and monkeys may have taken to the trees.

A university academic devises a 'cook book' to educate his students about anatomy.

Scientists use X-rays to find a host of animals trapped in 100-million-year-old opaque amber.

A jawbone and teeth found in Spain are from one of the oldest known humans in Europe, scientists say.

A camera that can "see" explosives, drugs and weapons hidden under clothing from 25 metres is invented.

Scientists claim 18,000-year- old "Hobbit" remains are not a new human species, but modern humans with a growth disorder.

Scientists find the fossilised remains of mammals that were related to present-day rabbits and hares.

A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.

A surgical gown with incision marks is designed to boost medical students' empathy for their patients.

The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.

The NHS is asking patients whether a new interactive body map should be correct in every detail.

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