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Cocaine has been used in Europe since the mid 19th century when Italian doctor Paolo Mantegazza recommended that patients could use the effects of cocaine to treat a furred tongue in the morning, flatulence and for whitening the teeth. Coca leaves were also used in the original recipe for Coca-Cola ...
Fluid on the lung sounds serious and it is. If the tiny air sacs inside the lungs become waterlogged, this produces pulmonary oedema, a frightening condition that causes severe breathing difficulties, coughing, anxiety and distress. Fluid accumulation outside air sacs, in the pleural cavity, leads ...
Peritoneal cancer is a rare form of cancer that affects the membrane that surrounds the organs of the abdomen. It mostly affects women and often goes undetected until it is quite advanced.
Readers of The Telegraph will be offered advice and products through a new partnership between the newspaper group and The Private Health Partnership. Telegraph Medical Insurance Service will also review existing policies to help those looking to reduce premiums without lowering benefit levels ...
HCA International, which owns the six leading private hospitals in London, has joined forces with the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust to open the first comprehensive private patient cancer treatment centre of its kind in Essex.
SWICA, one of the largest health and accident insurance companies in Switzerland, and DKV Globality, an international health insurance company focusing on expatriates, have signed a cooperation agreement.
Experts have warned that infertility rates are rising faster in developing countries than in developed ones.
The European Scanning Centre in Harley Street has launched the worlds most advanced scanner the new Aquilion ONE CT 640 slice scanner. The Centre is the only independent healthcare site in the UK and Europe to have invested in this £2 million dynamic volume CT scanner, which uses 320 ultra-high ...
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