Health Weekly

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HEALTH MATTERS

September 9 - 15, 2015
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Living kidney donors and their recipients would like to share more health information before the transplant surgery, a new survey indicates. Currently, patients must be informed if they’re at risk for acquiring hepatitis or HIV from a donor organ, researchers write in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.





Fruits are not equal

September 9 - 15, 2015
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Are all fruits equal? Sometimes I find myself recommending fruits as a healthy option only to regret it later when I find people bingeing on bananas, mangoes and dates.





T cells cure for cancer?

September 9 - 15, 2015
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Some leukaemia patients who had exhausted other treatment options have no trace of the disease more than four years after being given an experimental type of therapy called CAR T cells in a small pilot study.





Cardiac centre expansion to eliminate waiting list

September 9 - 15, 2015
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A delegation from Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company’s (GPIC) executive management team visited Shaikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Cardiac Centre at the BDF Hospital and was welcomed by its director Dr Resan Badran and other senior officials.