Health thingies
For starters;Europe's first non-beating heart transplanthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-320563501 hour agoSurgeons in Cambridgeshire have performed the first heart transplant in Europe using a...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-3601524813 April 2016In a world first, a quadriplegic man can once again move his fingers after a chip was implanted in his brain. Ian Burkhart from Ohio in the US can...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-3610178628 April 2014A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind.A clinical study has shown that the...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-361687172 May 2016Scientists say they now have a near-perfect picture of the genetic events that cause breast cancer.The study, published in Nature, has been described...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-3640036527 May 2016The 96-year-old American inventor of the Heimlich manoeuvre has used the technique himself to save a choking woman at his retirement...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-3721134929 August 2016 From the section AustraliaThe world's first cancer vaccine was administered in Australia exactly 10 years ago.Since then, the human...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/31/alzheimers-breakthrough-drug-which-halts-mental-decline-hailed-a/31 August 2016 The first drug that can prevent Alzheimer’s disease is finally on the...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-372803636 September 2016Despite a growing HIV epidemic in Russia, groups working to prevent the spread of the virus are worried they will be blacklisted for...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-3830407620 December 2016Surgeons have described a new treatment for early stage prostate cancer as "truly transformative".The approach, tested across Europe, uses...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-385181855 January 2017Babies should be given peanut early - some at four months old - in order to reduce the risk of allergy, according to new US guidance. Studies...
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However, young children should not eat whole peanuts, because of the risk of choking. that was really white of BBC for reminding us.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-385245669 January 2017Teeth can be encouraged to repair themselves in a way that could see an end to fillings, say scientists.The team at King's College London showed that...
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/mothers-google-search-helped-save-son-with-brain-tumours-life-a3444856.html19 January 2017A mother has told how a Google search helped save her nine-year-old...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/28/terminal-cancer-patients-complete-remission-one-gene-therapy/28 February 2017 A groundbreaking gene therapy treatment which boosts a patient's own immune...
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Not sure that many Africans will be taking advantage of this any time soon;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-391429712 March 2017A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a...
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Cutting down on protein might not be so great after all. Who woulda thunk it?http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39230005/why-gluten-free-might-not-be-so-good-for-you-after-all10 March...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-3930564017 March 2017An innovative new drug can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol to unprecedented levels, say doctors. The results of the...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-394780803 April 2017...............Prof Nick Mills, BHF senior clinical research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, who led the research, said: "Studies from the...
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sound-wave-blood-test-gives-results-in-minutes-zxr08g2dgApril 12 2017Patients could have medical conditions diagnosed faster after scientists developed sound-wave...
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