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...therapy and avoid drug side-effects." The study's authors recommend a prospective clinical trial now be undertaken to test the value of these findings for clinical practice. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most common cancer in children, accounts for about 30% of all deaths from childhood cancer in...Burden of parasitic worm infection greater than previous estimates
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...ectancy, according to decile of poverty, which the authors argue is a more appropriate measure than the official target, increased from 3.71 in 1992-94 to 3.87 in 2001-03. Income inequalities also rose markedly in the 1980s and have been sustained throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, although encouraging...Milk thistle does not reduce deaths from liver diseases, best studies find
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