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The Breathing Life Awards, UK



The 13th annual Breathing Life Awards will be taking place on Wednesday 28th May at Hilton Metropole and televised on Sky Real Lives (Sky channel 253) on Sunday 1st June, 9.30pm. Hosted by Carol Smillie and Dr David Bull, the glitzy awards ceremony celebrates the outstanding achievement of inspiring people that have Cystic Fibrosis (CF), the UK's most common life-threatening inherited disease.


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New medical technologies represented in companies added (September 2007) to the Medtech Startups Database and/or added to the September 2007 issue of MedMarkets.

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