Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Health & Medicine
What are the long-term health risks of having your tonsils out?
For the first time, researchers have examined the long-term effects of removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood, finding the operations are associated with increased respiratory, infectious and allergic diseases
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Health & Medicine
Putting the brakes on lung disease
Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that can be blocked to potentially prevent the destructive inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a major worldwide killer