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Linda Wootton: Double heart and lung transplant dies nine days after she has benefits stopped

29th May 2013 – 11:51

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/linda-wootton-double-heart-lung-1912498 She was told her employment and support allowance was being stopped as she lay dying in a hospital bed A double heart and lung transplant patient died just NINE DAYS after the Government stopped her benefits and ordered her to go back to work. Linda Wootton, 49, was on 10 prescription drugs a day, […]

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HIV baby ‘cured’ by early drug treatment

5th March 2013 – 11:05

A baby girl in the US born with HIV appears to have been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, doctors say. The Mississippi child is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. More testing needs to be done to see if […]

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