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Breakthrough for those suffering Liver Disease
Liver disease is Britain’s fifth biggest killer with around 16,000 dying of it each year. Alcohol is the biggest cause of liver disease in the UK but there are many other causes too such as obesit...New drug to slow heart may save 10,000 lives a year in UK
A drug, which slows down the heart rate that has just been approved by European regulators, may save 10,000 lives a year. Heart disease is Britain’s biggest killer. Just under 1 million (9...Patients given kidneys from cancer victim
The NHS has admitted negligence after two transplant patients received kidneys from a donor with an aggressive form of cancer. Just days after their operations at Royal Liverpool University hospital, ...A glass of milk a day could keep Alzheimer’s at bay
According to a study from the University of Maine, drinking a glass of milk every day may increase brain power, improve memory and prevent mental decline. Milk has long been known to help build health...The Greatest & Parkinson’s
Today is Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday. Three times World Heavyweight Champion and voted as the BBC Sports Personality of the Century, Ali is the most famous sufferer of Parkinson’s disease. Muha...Stem cell ‘Holy Grail’ will aid fight against disease
The first batch of ‘gold standard’ stem cells have been developed by British scientist’s from King’s Collge, London. Stem cells could one day lead to a massive breakthrough i...The magnificent seven ways to live until you are 100!
Dr Clive Yancy, a professor of medicine and chief cardiologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, has identified the seven steps to eternal life! Well, not qu...Fatty foods link to diabetes genes
A new diabetes treatment could become available, after scientists found that fatty foods trigger a genetic switch which causes the disease. Researchers are reporting in the journal Nature Medicine tha...New hope for ovarian cancer
A single gene has been found to raise the risk of ovarian cancer by as much as six times; giving a woman with the gene more than a 1 in 11 chance of developing the disease. The gene, like other &helli...Matthew Green- the man with the artificial heart
Matthew Green, a 40-year-old father, was suffering from a heart wasting disease known as cardiomyopathia which rapidly destroys the hearts ability to pump blood around the body. He was awaiting a tran...
