Major meetings will occur in the company which brings together scientists (both internal and external), clinical disease experts and the marketing team assigned to the program.

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The researchers, writing in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found aspirin reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease by 10% but this was offset by a 30% increase in the risk of serious internal bleeds.

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From an evolutionary perspective, humans have developed an aversion to sickness, and a creepy-looking almost-human might tap into our internal system that warns us against sources of disease.

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"All these studies tell us is it is much more complicated than just trying to fix that number because that is a surrogate marker, or a predictor for the disease, not the disease itself, " says Robert Centor, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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It often means that there is a greater likelihood that the body is storing fat around the internal organs such as the liver and kidneys, which increases the chances of getting heart disease.

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As well as the Higgs Prize and a number of other initiatives, this week the government will be announcing the appointment of 33 new health fellows to conduct research into medical challenges such as treating motor neurone disease, how to use technology to help people with diabetes and how to control internal bleeding.

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The severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever, involves a high temperature, head and muscle aches, internal bleeding and, at worst, circulatory failure.

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Detailed family information could help doctors better predict who is at risk and more accurately target patients for preventive care that may help avert the disease altogether, according to the study, due to be published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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