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• Simple surgery prevents strokes in heart patients

  15-05-2021 15:10
  The study tracked 4,811 people in 27 countries who are living with atrial fibrillation and taking blood thinners. Consenting patients undertaking cardiopulmonary bypass surgery were randomly selected for the additional left atrial appendage occlusion surgery; their outcomes compared with those who only took medicine. They were all followed for a median of four years.
  
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• ‘The secret of my identity devastated me’: could official records reveal the truth about my childhood?

  15-05-2021 07:00
  
  I was taken into care when I was just two, but have never known the exact reasons whyIt was in early 2020 that I received the first few fragments of my care records from my local council. They arrived in an email, with a secure link to a server where I could download a pdf of documents that had been collated, redacted and scanned. I often imagine that these documents were sitting in the forgotten basement of some council building in Guildford. Maybe a civil servant had to find a torch and descen
  
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