Health Weekly

Health Weekly




Aspirin may help cancer patients

August 26 - September 1, 2009
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Score another win for the humble aspirin. A study suggests colon cancer patients who took the dirt-cheap wonder drug reduced their risk of death from the disease by nearly 30 per cent.





Swine flu: Who will get vaccinated first?

August 26 - September 1, 2009
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Governments bracing for a second, possibly more lethal, wave of swine flu are all grappling with the same unforgiving dilemma: with not enough vaccine to go around, who is going to get jabbed first?