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SA teenager benefits from compassionate supply of drug
A potentially life-saving drug has breathed new life into a teenage girl suffering from a rare lung disease, reports The Times. Jenna Lowe, diagnosed...
Artificial heart patient dies
The first patient fitted with an artificial heart made by the French company Carmat has died, the hospital that had performed the transplant in...
Alzheimer’s deaths in the US higher than previously thought
A new study suggests that about half a million elderly Americans died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2010, an annual figure many times higher than...
Global warming could free disease-causing viruses
The discovery of an infectious giant virus that had been entombed in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years has led scientists to warn of other...
The fatty foods debate
British National Health Service guidelines – which advise cutting down on fatty foods like butter, cream and chocolate – may be putting the public...