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Smokers are to be denied operations on the Health Service unless they give up cigarettes for at least four weeks beforehand.
Doctors will police the rule by ordering patients to take a blood test to prove they have not been smoking.
The ruling, authorised by Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, comes after medical research conclusively […]

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Women are being warned that taking iron pills during pregnancy could do them more harm than good.
Unless a pregnant woman is anaemic, say doctors, extra iron could cause her to develop high blood pressure, which in turn may lead to her baby being born smaller.
For more than 20 years, mothers-to-be have been […]

Cancer researchers have been studying shark cartilage for years because cartilage is one of the few tissues without blood vessels, which tumors need to grow.
In the largest study of its kind, Charles Lu of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center studied 384 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer that could not be cured by surgery. […]

The knees may not always be the first to go: Hair, vision and the ability to locate one’s keys may precede them.
But when knees go bad, as they do so often in mid-life and beyond, costs and consequences can be severe: Knee injuries and osteoarthritis of the knee are major causes of disability in […]

Aspirin didn’t pan out. Neither did two other potential anti-aging agents. But a synthetic derivative of a pungent desert shrub is now a front- runner in ongoing animal experiments to find out if certain chemicals, known to inhibit inflammation, cancer and other destructive processes, can boost the odds of living longer.
Today at the annual meeting […]