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Mr Brough said a patient would have to be fully informed of the risk they were taking in having an operation - particularly since the condition being treated was not in itself life-threatening.
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Venezuela's most senior political leaders are in Cuba to visit President Hugo Chavez, who is still in a serious condition after his latest cancer operation in Havana on 11 December.
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In a news conference on Monday, the Birmingham hospital's medical director Dr Dave Rosser said everything had gone "very well" in Saturday's operation and said the teenager's condition was continuing to improve.
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But as he turned 15 his condition deteriorated and a heart transplant operation was carried out last month.
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He added that her condition worsened after she underwent a further hip operation following a fall at the hospital.
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The star, whose hits include I'm Outta Love, also suffers from the bowel condition Crohn's disease and had an operation for this at the age of 13 for the illness.
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He is in a stable condition at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, after an operation in Tromso, Norway.
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An intelligence official in the Middle East, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to disclose information about a secret military operation to the media, confirmed that Israel launched an airstrike in the Syrian capital early Sunday but did not give more precise details about the location.
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Just one of them could be a condition expected to come from the Treasury in any negotiations on co-operation over use of sterling on both sides of the border.
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Wright's friend Rick Hession has a heart condition that could cause a stroke, but he has a three-month wait or more for an operation to help correct it.
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