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Surgeons have been performing heart transplants for 30 years now and the prospects of survival continue to improve. ...
The benefits of hormone replacement therapy could be cancelled out by their risks, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...
Chlorine is regularly used in our public water supply to combat infectious waterborne diseases, but it may be doing more harm than good. A public notice issued in Washington, DC, warned that a high level of bacteria
IS THERE AN ULTIMATE MAGIC BULLET? And could it be the B vitamins?
Keyhole surgery can trigger gallbladder cancer or cause it to recur, researchers have found. The procedure, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which involves the removal of the gall bladder, c ...
Many surgeons believe that some organs in the body really aren’t necessary, so when things go wrong, they can be removed with no harm done. A common example of this is a cholecystectomy - surgical removal of the gallbladder. The gallbladder...
Green tea can help prevent heart attack and liver disorders. The same benefits were not found in black tea, the variety drunk in the West. ...
Soybeans have done for heart patients what a host of drugs and special diets couldn't. ...
The entire approach of lowering cholesterol is faulty. The Framingham Project, which followed a Massachusetts study group over time, found a significant correlation between total cholesterol and h ...
