A study has revealed a new, much less painful way to prevent rheumatic heart disease
A study has revealed a new, much less painful way to prevent rheumatic heart disease
16 May 2024
Otago University says the treatment's an improvement on the almost 70-year-old method that many patients avoid.
Lead author Julie Bennett says the disease has disappeared in most high-income countries.
But she says it's still an alarming and inequitable cause of preventable suffering and death among Maori and Pasifika here.
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