May 15, 2013

I never thought I’d ever be saying this, but well done Angelina Jolie, you are a superstar.
I thought you were just a beauty with patronising UN ambassador quotes about “African orphans” blah blah but wow!
Wow, indeed!
You decided not to risk breast and ovarian cancer by having a double mastectomy.
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December 18, 2012

A woman, Sally Roberts, started a nationwide missing persons hunt for running away with her son, aged 7, as she did not want him to undergo surgery to remove a tumor on his brain. The decision was finally given to a judge who ruled in the favour of the medical team and advised that her son be given the operation as soon as possible.
I have a seven year old niece and can only imagine the trauma the mother is going through. It must be so incredibly
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May 1, 2012

I read an article recently of a woman in her twenties who was waiting for surgery on her bunions due to constantly wearing ill-fitting shoes and high heels from a very young age. Bunions are that growth near your big toe that over time pushes your toe to almost a 30 degree angle and will ultimately need to be fixed through, often painful, surgery and lengthy recovery but this used to only affects women over the age of 45.
As fashionable heels get higher
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December 21, 2011
Can you imagine breast implants leaking or rupturing? Ughh! Ghastly!! Makes me shudder… The Guardian reveals that 250 women are launching a high court case against 6 British clinics who have supplied them with faulty French produced implants. About 30,000 women in France and 40,000 in Britain are said to have these implants which may need replacing.

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August 2, 2011

Two interesting stories on the same larger issue: organ donation. A man is recovering in hospital after receiving an artificial heart transplant and new applicants for a UK drivers licence will now have to complete information regarding organ donation.
The man who received the new hi-tech heart is still waiting for an organ donor for a real heart
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