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Mammogram

How often should I have a check-up mammogram?

November 28, 2009

Continue with Mammograms   Wikipedia

One of our biggest worries is “what if cancer returns?
What if this niggle proves to be the start of cancer in another part of my body?”
Whatever we do, however a healthy life-style we adopt, at the back of every survivor’s mind is the “what if?” question.
So it makes sense [...]

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Inventors Wanted for NHS

October 30, 2009

Trevort Baylis    Wikipedia

CALLING ALL INVENTORS
The NHS has set aside £220 million to be made available for their  Innovation programme, to “support faster innovation and more universal diffusion of best practice.”  In other words to encourage, recognise and reward new products and inventions to help improve the service.
The service is desperately in need of sensible [...]

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Osteoporosis, diet and who is at risk

September 17, 2008

Machine to measure Bone
Density – Image via Wikipedia

OSTEOPOROSIS
Osteoporosis literally means ‘porous bones’, and if you are put on certain drugs e.g. Aromasin, you will be monitored in case you develop this.
The bones in our skeleton are made of a thick outer shell and a strong inner mesh which looks like honeycomb made up of bony [...]

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