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Q & A: Professor Stephen O’Rahilly2
Professor of clinical biochemistry and medicine, University of Cambridge. He is one of the world’s leading researchers into the genetic and physiological causes of obesity
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Did you know that one day soon, chest cracking open-heart surgery will be replaced by a less invasive technique? Read on for more medical breakthroughs
2010 Medical Breakthroughs1
These are exciting times, with scientists making giant leaps in many areas including cancer prevention and treatment, AIDS, surgery, mental health and heart disease. Reader's Digest reviews the latest medical findings.
Inflammation - what it is, and how to avoid it1
Inflammation is the latest buzzword in medical science, implicated in everything from asthma and arthritis to heart disease and cancer. Here’s what you need to know to stay out of the red zone.
Be bone-wise - know the osteoporosis risk factors1
  Knowing the risk factors helps foil osteporosis
Tipping the ScalesThere are high hopes for the latest weight-loss “wonder drug” to hit the market
Q & A: Professor Jennie Brand-MillerProfessor of human nutrition, University of Sydney. Dr Brand-Miller revolutionised our understanding of carbohydrates and food with her work on the glycaemic index (GI)
Q & A: Professor Ian FrazerImmunologist, University of Queensland. Dr Frazer has led research into the human papillomavirus and a cervical cancer vaccine 
Q & A: Professor Salim Abdool KarimClinical infectious diseases epidemiologist at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. Dr Abdool Karim is one of the world’s preeminent researchers into HIV/AIDS
Q & A: Professor Judith WhitworthProfessor Judith Whitworth is an expert in hypertension
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