Obese teenagers will be given controversial stomach stapling on the NHS under a ruling by NICE.
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Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from Amniotic fluid. Dr. Hoerstrup led the work, which was presented Wednesday(15/11/06) at an American Heart Association conference.
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The research showed that there was reduced risk of skin cancer was mainly the result of reduced risk of basal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. The relative risk of squamous cell carcinoma was close to expected.
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The adjusted in-hospital mortality for more than 48,000 patients hospitalized with heart failure varied inversely with their admission systolic blood pressure (SBP) and was about 4 times higher when the SBP was lower than 120 mm Hg as compared with higher than 161 mm Hg.
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The first stage of the Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults showed that individuals with bronchial hyperreactivity(BHR) who are persistently exposed to passive smoking are at particular risk of developing early:onset chronic respiratory disease.
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Britain is facing an AIDS epidemic due to immigrants, a problem, which will hit a critical point when Romania and Bulgaria join the EU next year.
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A small increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has been associated with the influenza vaccine in adults, new research suggests.
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Bringing LDL-cholesterol levels substantially below 100 mg/dL with high-dose atorvastatin can greatly decrease the risk of ischemic stroke and other cerebrovascular events in patients with stable coronary disease, according to an analysis of data from the Treating to New Targets (TNT) study.
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A virtual environment can safely reproduce potentially dangerous tasks as part of stroke rehabilitation. However, the system needs further work in order to mimic the real world more closely.
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