A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant
The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the groundbreaking,...
Medicine
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Melatonin Overdoses Are Spiking In Young Kids
More adults are using melatonin to get to sleep at night. Unfortunately, that means more young children are finding their parents’ tablets and gummies and...
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Abortion pills at heart of reproductive rights challenges in Poland,
An activist in Poland was convicted on Tuesday for helping a pregnant woman access abortion pills, as a legal case in the US attempts to ban...
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Turkey: One month after quake, French paramedics help residents in remote areas
/ Shows / Focus Issued on: 06/03/2023 – 16:14 05:23 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 It’s been a month since two devastating earthquakes hit Turkey and...
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French and Turkish medics visit Turkey’s rural areas
Issued on: 18/02/2023 – 12:20Modified: 18/02/2023 – 12:23 Turkey’s hospitals are full of patients injured in the earthquakes, and many of the millions left homeless in the...
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Top 10 good news stories (yes, really) from 2022
Anyone would be forgiven for thinking there was little good news in a year dominated by the war in Ukraine as well as the cost-of-living...
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Hoping for a breakthrough, the search for answers on long Covid continues
A new US study is the latest to identify several factors that make some people more susceptible to long Covid than others. Yet with millions around...
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Pfizer offers to sell medicines to poorest countries on not-for-profit basis
Issued on: 25/05/2022 – 14:03Modified: 25/05/2022 – 14:08 US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis...
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New law in Iran limits screening tests during pregnancy
Issued on: 11/05/2022 – 19:02 The Iranian Health Ministry announced on April 16 that doctors and midwives in Iran would be banned from running screening...
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A country short of doctors: Exploring France's 'medical deserts'
The French healthcare system is often held up as an example for its quality of treatment and universality of coverage. But disparities exist across the...
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Recipient of first successful pig’s heart transplant dies after two months
Issued on: 09/03/2022 – 17:23 A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s...
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Luc Montagnier, French Nobel laureate who co-discovered HIV, dies at 89
Issued on: 10/02/2022 – 18:21 French researcher Luc Montagnier, who has died at 89, shared the Nobel medicine prize for his vital early discoveries on...