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TODAY'S NEWS
Websites offer “poor quality” cholesterol-lowering drugs
Fri February 3rd - Patients are being warned against buying statins via the internet because of their poor quality and lack of information about how to use the medicine. More
New hope for universal vaccine for influenza
Fri February 3rd - Chemicals found inside flu viruses could pave the way for the development of a universal vaccine for the infection. More
Resistant TB spreading - WHO
Fri February 3rd - The world is facing a serious threat from the spread of hard to treat TB, experts warned yesterday. More
THIS WEEK'S STORIES
Row over new extra time drug ban
Thurs February 2nd - A row broke out today over proposals to restrict a drug for male cancer that was discovered in the UK. More
Cold hands syndrome campaign
Thurs February 2nd - Doctors have urged people with persistently cold hands to recognise the weather may not be to blame. More
Treat adolescent depression signs - professor
Thurs February 2nd - A British expert today calls for more to be done to identify and treat young people with low levels of depression. More
New tomato prostate cancer link
Wed February 1st - British researchers have made new discoveries showing how the redness in tomatoes may protect men against cancer, it was announced yesterday. More
Exercise benefits for cancer patients
Wed February 1st - Cancer patients can benefit from taking exercise after their treatment is complete, researchers say today. More
Asthma test and national review aim to cut deaths
Wed February 1st - Experts have developed a new test to give people with asthma an idea of their risk of a severe attack, it was announced today. More
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09/01/2012 - Give up the daily drink
Drinkers should cease believing that a daily drink is safe, MPs and senior doctors warned today. More

16/11/2011 - Encourage living donors - consultant
Doctors can reasonably encourage healthy people to donate a kidney to a stranger, a senior consultant argues today. More

15/11/2011 - Heart "revolution" hope
Patients with heart failure have successfully been treated with their own cells in a "revolutionary" treatment, researchers reported yesterday. More

08/11/2011 - Cancer patients may need obesity advice
People with cancer - or its early signs - should be given advice about their weight if they are obese, researchers warned today. More

07/11/2011 - Cancer women need fertility advice
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer need to be given advice on how they can preserve fertility, a major conference was told today. More

13/10/2011 - Gene disease fault corrected
British scientists have made a fresh breakthrough in the search to find ways of correcting genetic diseases, it was announced last night. More

05/10/2011 - Exercise helps chronic kidney disease patients
A new review has concluded that regular exercise can benefit people with long-term kidney disease. More

23/08/2011 - Saffron passes lab test
The yellow spice saffron may help to prevent liver cancer, researchers reported yesterday. More

08/08/2011 - Spirit link to pancreas disease
People who drink spirits rather than wine or beer face an increased risk of disease of the pancreas, according to Swedish researchers. More

28/07/2011 - Hepatitis Day warning
Thousands of Britons may find themselves on the liver transplant list because they are unaware they are carrying the hepatitis C virus, according to figures published today. More

27/07/2011 - Men face bowel cancer risk
British men now face a significant risk of developing bowel cancer during their lifetimes, according to stark new figures published today. More

09/06/2011 - Fat threat to liver
Fat is a bigger threat to the liver than alcohol for the majority of men, according to two Swedish studies. More

06/06/2011 - End cowboy hypnosis - practitioners
The NHS should make more use of hypnosis - and save patients from "cowboys", practitioners said today. More

10/05/2011 - Swedes implant stem cell vessel
Swedish doctors claim to have performed the world's first operation on a human using a blood vessel made from stem cells. More

15/04/2011 - Artificial pancreas hope for diabetes
An artificial pancreas could help to stabilise blood glucose levels at night among adults with type 1 diabetes, researchers say today. More

14/03/2011 - New gene clues to liver disease
British researchers last night unveiled new genetic clues to the causes of a deadly liver disease. More

10/03/2011 - Transplant drive for Kidney Day
More effort should be made to enable kidney patients to get transplants before they need dialysis, new UK guidelines say today. More

21/01/2011 - Lab-grown tissue ready for liver transplants
Human liver cells grown in a lab could be used in place of donor organs after successful trials. More

10/11/2010 - Benefits of organ donation captured in patient letters
A new book has been published to celebrate organ donation success stories. It contains letters and photographs sent from patients to the families of their donors. More

04/11/2010 - Drug may boost diabetes care
A protein used to test people with diabetes for risk of kidney and heart disease may hold clues to preventing problems, researchers said last night. More

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