MEDICAL

May 14, 2013
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Angelina Jolie has healthy breasts removed Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer. Her mother died from cancer aged 56. Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The actress, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer...
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World’s first womb transplant woman pregnant

April 13, 2013

ISTANBUL (AFP) – The first woman ever to receive a uterus from a deceased donor, is two-weeks pregnant following a successful embryo transplant, her doctors said on Friday. The 22-year-old Derya Sert was revealed to be almost two-weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilisation at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey’s southern province...
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What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

April 7, 2013

Ben Goldacre Physician, author TEDTalks can sometimes portray science in triumphalist tones, with fabulous innovations that are changing the world forever. But the real action in science is often around dirty, messy, angry problems, and my TEDTalk is about the dirtiest I’ve seen yet. Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed...
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Larry the robot vomits so you don’t have

February 11, 2013
Larry the robot vomits so you don’t have

LARRY the robot is probably the ultimate labour saving device: He does the puking so we can do the partying. British boffins have enslaved an anatomically correct robot (at least when it comes to the digestive and throat reflex systems) to a lifetime of projectile vomiting – all in the name of science. And...
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New Zealand hospital removes eel from man’s bottom

September 24, 2012
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A short-finned eel, similar to the one found in a man’s bottom in New Zealand. Picture: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank Source: Supplied A MAN with an eel lodged in his bottom has shown up at a New Zealand emergency department asking for help. The unnamed man presented himself at the Auckland City Hospital...
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British soldier gives birth to baby on front line in Afghanistan

September 20, 2012
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A British soldier has given birth to a new baby boy while serving on the front line in Afghanistan despite not realizing she was pregnant. The woman, who has not been named by the Ministry of Defence, was complaining of stomach pains and it was only then she realized she was pregnant. “Mother and...
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Deaf gerbils hear again with human stem cells

September 20, 2012
Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield

Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield. Credit: Reuters/Marcelo Rivolta/University of Sheffield/Handout By Ben Hirschler LONDON | Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:09pm EDT (Reuters) – Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells...
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Man enters hospital for kidney stone, leaves as a woman

May 25, 2012
Support: Stevie's wife Debbie, right, stood by her after the discovery and they are still together

A husband and father of six children went into hospital for a kidney stone and came out as a woman – and she doesn’t mind one bit. Steve Crecelius says he felt ‘validated’ when a nurse reading his ultrasound said, “Huh, this says you’re a female”. Steve attended a Denver, Colorado hospital due to...
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Doctors plan more amputations to save Aimee

May 21, 2012
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The parents of a woman who has lost a leg to a rare flesh-eating bacteria say she knows that she faces more amputations in a bid to save her life.Aimee Copeland, 24, was infected with the bacteria while kayaking. She is in a critical condition in hospital and has already had her left leg...
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Injecting our guts with fecal bacteria from ancient mummies could cure obesity

April 7, 2012
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Antibiotics have depleted our gut flora and possibly made us fatter. Researchers look for answers in the flora of humans who lived in an era before modern medicine. By Bryan NelsonThu, Mar 29 2012 at 9:19 PM EST Photo: ZUMA Press It sounds outrageous, but King Tut’s stomach bacteria might hold the cure for obesity. Researchers...
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