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June 26, 2025
Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch
June 25, 2025
Millions of children at risk as vaccine uptake stalls
June 06, 2025
Measles holiday warning as cases rise in Europe
June 02, 2025
Deadly superbugs thrive as access to antibiotics falters in India
May 12, 2025
The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'
LONDON — A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant.Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace's sister, who donated her womb.Holding baby Amy — who weighed just over two kilos (four and a half pounds) — for the first time was "incredible" and "surreal", new mum Grace says."It was quite overwhelming because we'd never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her...
April 08, 2025
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
BRISBANE — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified, received the implant during surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney last November.In February, he became the first person worldwide to leave hospital with the device, which kept him alive until a heart donor became available earlier this month.According to a statement issued Wednesday by St Vincent’s Hospital, Monash University and BiVACOR, the US-Australian company behind the device, the man, who had severe heart failure, was “recovering well.”The ability of the device to sustain him for so long is being celebrated as a sign the artificial...
March 12, 2025
Man lives for 100 days with titanium heart in successful new trial
March 03, 2025
Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
January 21, 2025
Weight-loss drugs may boost health in many ways
December 05, 2024
India's 'blockbuster' drugs to take on deadly superbugs