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At the end of last year, Ekaterina Aleksandrova boarded a plane in London and flew to Mumbai. It wasn't her first trip there - she is a management consultant and often goes overseas on business. But this time she went to have five embryos implanted in her womb. Two days later she flew home.
Surgeons crossed another medical frontier this week with the transplant of a windpipe grown from stem cells – the "mother" cells of the body capable of developing into specialised tissue. The success of the operation in Barcelona on Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother-of-two, proved what scientists have long promised – that stem cells can now be used to fashion replacement body parts.
Two new government studies, published within days of each other, point to disturbing health hazards of genetically modified foods.
Duska Therapeutics, Inc. will host a teleconference call today at 2:30 p.m. EST to review its drug development programs and financial results for the third quarter of 2008. Duska's chief executive officer, James S.
Listen, I’ll tell you whatever you want, but this absolutely, positively, cannot get back to my parents,” Alex Greenbaum tells me at our first meeting. “I mean, it’s not like I’m ashamed, but my parents didn’t exactly send me to Barnard so I could donate my eggs.”
President-elect Barack Obama is being asked to intervene in the state he represented in the U.S. Senate to halt a prison "feeding program" that is causing health problems for inmates, according to a nutrition organization.
Why is it generally easier to find funds for people who study mental disorders in laboratories than it is to find funds that make a difference in the lives of people with mental disorders?
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that fights damaging natural substances known as free radicals. It works in lipids (fats and oils), which makes it complementary to vitamin C, which fights free radicals dissolved in water.
Lois Victor's only children, Debbie and Linda, died at ages 8 and 35, respectively. The cause? A debilitating genetic disorder that is found in Ashkenazi Jews.
The Haemophilia Society of Malaysia organises training workshops for patients with support from the World Federation of Haemophilia (WFH) and Baxter Healthcare.
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