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In a study published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, researchers with the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, reported the incidence of childhood cancer was 140 per million per year from 2001–2010 among children up to age 14.
Source: tatoeba (11123135)
The number of people around the world with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, has risen dramatically — by almost 25 percent — in just 10 years — according to a new study in the Lancet medical journal.
Source: tatoeba (11224175)
The trial, reported in the journal The Lancet, took place in June 2015. None of the participants had received a flu vaccine during the previous influenza season. The participants were divided into four groups. In one group the patch was administered by a health care provider, in the second it was self-administered by each participant, a third group received the vaccine via injection and a fourth group got a placebo.
Source: tatoeba (12250751)
In another just-released study in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists in Thailand have found widespread malaria parasite resistance to artemisinin and combination therapies using artemisinin, considered the gold standard treatment.
Source: tatoeba (12256937)
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Closest matches include blade, edge tool, gothic window, hatchet, instrument.
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