He also warned that because of the government's current policy to disperse asylum seekers, many of whom are at high risk of medical problems like Tuberculosis (TB), that many more GPs would be coming into contact with the disease.

BBC: GPs warned to be ready for smallpox

Women involved in that trial were actually at higher risk for many of the problems that hormone therapy was supposed to prevent.

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The methods used by many companies to offload risk or disguise problems can be fiendishly complex (and very profitable for those that sell them).

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