A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant
[ad_1] The first reported person in the world has received a genetically modified pig kidney. A transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully performed the...
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Melatonin Overdoses Are Spiking In Young Kids
[ad_1] More adults are using melatonin to get to sleep at night. Unfortunately, that means more young children are finding their parents’ tablets and gummies...
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Abortion pills at heart of reproductive rights challenges in Poland,
[ad_1] 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...
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Turkey: One month after quake, French paramedics help residents in remote areas
[ad_1] / 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...
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French and Turkish medics visit Turkey’s rural areas
[ad_1] 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...
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Top 10 good news stories (yes, really) from 2022
[ad_1] Anyone would be forgiven for thinking there was little good news in a year dominated by the war in Ukraine as well as the...
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Hoping for a breakthrough, the search for answers on long Covid continues
[ad_1] 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...
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Pfizer offers to sell medicines to poorest countries on not-for-profit basis
[ad_1] 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...
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New law in Iran limits screening tests during pregnancy
[ad_1] 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...
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A country short of doctors: Exploring France's 'medical deserts'
[ad_1] The French healthcare system is often held up as an example for its quality of treatment and universality of coverage. But disparities exist across...
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Recipient of first successful pig’s heart transplant dies after two months
[ad_1] 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...
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Luc Montagnier, French Nobel laureate who co-discovered HIV, dies at 89
[ad_1] 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...
