Liver transplant for heavy drinkers

Liver transplant for heavy drinkers
The NHS Blood and Transplant Service (NHSBT)will launch a pilot scheme offering a life-saving organ donation to 20 patients who have been diagnosed with severe liver disease and an alcohol problem for the first time, the Guardian reported. It comes at …
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Health trusts criticised after vulnerable Canterbury father Simon Willson …
Two NHS trusts have admitted "unacceptable failures" in their care of a father-of-two found hanged in a disabled toilet in Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Simon Willson, 34, had been admitted to … The former floor layer, who lived in Knight Avenue in …
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Are e-cigarettes really that much safer than smoking tobacco? I'm not convinced
The NHS says that compared with regular cigarettes, the e version is the lesser of two evils. I disagree, and so … at what cost? Are some addictions more acceptable than others? My sister smoked herself to death, so you know where I am coming from …
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