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Researchers at Uppsala University have analysed the effects of seven different hormone treatments for menopausal symptoms on the risk of blood clots, stroke and heart attack.

More than 3,500 victims of the scandal were NHS patients with the blood disorder haemophilia, they were infected after being given a contaminated clotting agent.

When the couple reached the hospital, Becky was rushed into surgery with blood clots while Noah was taken to intensive care.

Fady Haddad, the university’s head of vascular surgery, and his team painstakingly repaired and reconnected the damaged blood vessels, but 48 hours later, they had inexplicably clotted and failed.

She was anxious to get home to her young sons, but, according to a nurse’s notes, she was still “passing large clots the size of grapefruit.”