• 24 AUG 16
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    Childhood head injury linked to range of adult health problems

    "Millions of Brits face dying early because of something they did when they were children," says the Daily Mirror’s needlessly alarming headline. The newspaper reports on a study which found that a head injury causing concussion (known as a traumatic brain injury or TBI) may increase the chances of a range of health problems in

    • 23 AUG 16
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    Combined HRT breast cancer risk ‘may have been underestimated’

    "Women who take a common form of HRT are nearly three times as likely to get breast cancer, a major study has found," the Daily Mail reports. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a treatment used to relieve symptoms of the menopause, such as hot flushes. It replaces hormones that typically drop to a lower level during

    • 23 AUG 16
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    Gene scanning ‘could improve screening for oesophageal cancer’

    "Simple test can now reveal which heartburn patients are at risk of oesophageal cancer," is the hopeful headline in the Daily Mail, reporting on a new study from researchers at Queen Mary University of London. The researchers have been investigating whether a test for patients with Barrett’s oesophagus may be able to predict the likelihood of the