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• Get well soon with flowering plants - (31/12/2008)

  Flowers or pot plants are a popular gift for people recovering from illness. Now researchers believe they may actually aid recovery, based on a study of people who’ d had their appendix taken out...

  

• New treatment shows promise for kidney transplant patients - (30/12/2008)

  A cancer drug has been used successfully to treat patients in danger of rejecting their kidney transplants. The drug, bortezomib, reversed signs that people’ s bodies were rejecting the transplants, for six months or more. But the research is still in the very early stages...

  

• Low vitamin D may increase chance of a caesarean delivery - (23/12/2008)

  Pregnant women who have too little vitamin D may be more likely to deliver their baby through caesarean section, according to a new study. But at the moment this is still only a theory. We do know, however, that vitamin D is important to mothers and babies in other ways, and doctors encourage pregnant women to take vitamin D supplements...