New era in medicine as first-ever womb transplant in UK is hailed as key to fertility treatment
The transplant is expected to last for a maximum of five years before the womb will be removed. The chair of the British Fertility Society, Dr Raj Mathur, described it as “a remarkable achievement”.
US Food and Drug Agency under fire for hiding facts about Covid vaccines being gene therapy
As the effectiveness of natural immunity became clear, people should have been informed of this and warned of potential risks from Covid-19 shots. This way, they could make an informed decision before consenting to an experimental injection that could have serious effects.
Manchester Crown Court sentences Lucy Letby, deemed the most prolific child killer in recent UK history
Following 22 days of deliberation, a jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted Letby, 33, of killing the babies over a yearlong period that saw her prey on the vulnerabilities of sick newborns and their anxious parents. The victims died in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between June 2015 and June 2016.
Intrigued Sierra Leonean volunteers dream of bringing home floating hospital – Global Mercy
A World Bank report found that poverty in urban areas in Sierra Leone improved from 2011 to 2018 – a great achievement. But in rural areas during the same time period, poverty rose from 9 per cent to 13 per cent. That’s why Mercy Ships volunteer Lamarana Shour thinks the Global Mercy’s visit is more important than ever.
Sister elated after allowing surgeons to use brain-dead brother for pig’s kidney transplant experiment in New York
Attempts at animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, have failed for decades as people’s immune systems attacked the foreign tissue. Now researchers are using pigs genetically modified so their organs better match human bodies.
Americans brace for ‘Eris’ vaccine as experts, analysts predict low uptake of Covid subvariant jab
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the US or 73 per cent of the population, received at least one shot.
Beware, the red meat allergy caused by lone star tick is a serious health concern that has no cure
It’s common for health reports of “new” health risks to go viral, which has been true of late for tick-induced meat allergies. An internet news search returned more than 13,000 page hits for “alpha-gal syndrome” in the 30 days prior to this writing — nearly as many as a search on “breast cancer.
Breakthrough as new study finds correlation between antibiotic resistance and air pollution
A paper published in The Lancet last year attributed 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance – more people than perished from malaria or AIDS that year.
The United Nations Environmental Programme warned in July that “if unchecked, [antimicrobial resistance] could shave $3.4 trillion off GDP annually and push 24 million more people into extreme poverty in the next decade.”
Rising attacks at US medical centres makes healthcare America’s most violent field
It’s not just deadly shootings: Healthcare workers racked up 73 per cent of all nonfatal workplace violence injuries in 2018, the most recent year for which figures are available, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Harvard psychologist zeroes in on nine phrases used every day that signal emotional resilience
Resilience is associated with a basic acceptance that life isn’t always fair, and that we all experience emotional hardships. Accepting this truth helps people to not take things as personally when undesirable events happen.
