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Harvard Health Publications lists top 10 health stories for 2004
January 6th, 2005
As it does every December, the Harvard Health Letter has chosen the top 10 health stories of the year; the winners for 2004 are: 1. Lowdown on cholesterol, high-dose statins. Revised government guidelines carved out a new "very-high-risk" category and set a super-low standard of 70 mg/dL or less of "bad" LDL cholesterol for people in this new category. 2. Cloning for stem cells. Two controversial research paths crossed this year when South Korean scientists announced that they had created 30 cloned human embryos and harvested embryonic stem cells from one of them. If this "therapeutic" cloning becomes acceptable and practical, this breakthrough...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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