Bleeding, followed by mental torture

Article Abstract:

A new drug, Ceredase has been produced in America to treat Gaucher's disease. It is the most expensive drug to produce at 200,000 pounds sterling for a year's course. The disease is an inherited enzyme deficiency which enlarges the liver, spleen or bone marrow, causing lack of growth and bleeding. The most common form of the disease, type 1, is often found in people of Jewish descent, about one in 400-600. Ceredase is the first enzyme replacement drug to be produced and is not yet licensed in Britain. Patients at Addenbrookes Hospital have been given much lower doses than in the US by Timothy Cox, Professor of Medicine at Cambridge University.

Finance, Drug therapy, Gaucher's disease, Ceredase (Medication)

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A campaign to save the foreskin

Article Abstract:

Six per cent of boys under 15 are circumcised if their foreskin fails to retract or they have frequent infections. This figure does not include infants who are circumcised for religious reasons. Some paediatric urologists believe these operations are unnecessary as a true phimosis is rare. Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, offers a more minor operation, preputial plasty, where the glans is pushed through the foreskin and a longitudinal cut widens the foreskin. This is a much safer operation for inexperienced surgeons to perform.

Health aspects, Surgery, Circumcision, Prepuce (Anatomy), Foreskin

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How dentists gave me all I wanted for Christmas

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The Eastman Dental Hospital, London, England operates the biggest hypodontia clinic in the world. About two and a half million people have developmentally missing teeth (hypodontia.) Eastman patients are mainly children. Hypodontia is common in Down's syndrome and ectodermal dysplasia. It is sometimes hereditary. Milk teeth sometimes remain, but may sink into the jaw bone. Teeth are repositioned, veneers are used to cover gaps and bridges and dentures are made.

Hospitals, Dentistry, Dental care, Family, Oral hygiene, Prosthodontics, Dental prostheses, Dental aesthetics

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