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This week in our Health in Focus section you can find out more about National Smile Month, Dying Matters Awareness Week, Arthritis Care Awareness Week, International ME Awareness Month, and the Take Life On and Detect Cancer Early campaigns.
Everyone over the age of 50 should be given statins because the “cholesterol-busting” drugs reduce the risk of a heart attack even in healthy people, according to the Daily Telegraph and many other newspapers.
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New research has mapped the way that MRSA “superbug” bacteria spread, BBC News has reported.