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In "Life / Health"
May 12, 2025
The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'
LONDON — A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant.Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. She and her husband, Angus, 37, have named their daughter Amy after Grace's sister, who donated her womb.Holding baby Amy — who weighed just over two kilos (four and a half pounds) — for the first time was "incredible" and "surreal", new mum Grace says."It was quite overwhelming because we'd never really let ourselves imagine what it would be like for her...
April 08, 2025
First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
BRISBANE — An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology.The patient, a man in his 40s who declined to be identified, received the implant during surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney last November.In February, he became the first person worldwide to leave hospital with the device, which kept him alive until a heart donor became available earlier this month.According to a statement issued Wednesday by St Vincent’s Hospital, Monash University and BiVACOR, the US-Australian company behind the device, the man, who had severe heart failure, was “recovering well.”The ability of the device to sustain him for so long is being celebrated as a sign the artificial...
March 12, 2025
Man lives for 100 days with titanium heart in successful new trial
March 03, 2025
Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
January 21, 2025
Weight-loss drugs may boost health in many ways
December 05, 2024
India's 'blockbuster' drugs to take on deadly superbugs
LIVERPOOL — The world's oldest living man has died at the age of 112, his family have confirmed.John Alfred Tinniswood died on Monday at the Southport care home where he lived.The lifelong Liverpool football fan became the world’s oldest living man in April this year, when Juan Vicente Pérez Mora died at the age of 114.His family said Tinniswood's final day was "surrounded by music and love".Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK’s oldest man in 2020.He was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest man in April 2024.Born to Ada and John Bernard Tinniswood, Tinniswood, a widower, leaves behind a daughter, Susan, grandchildren Annouchka, Marisa, Toby and Rupert, and great-grandchildren...
November 26, 2024
World's oldest man dies aged 112
November 19, 2024
Sitting too much linked to heart disease –– even if you work out
November 13, 2024
Don’t sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
November 07, 2024
HRT does not impact life expectancy — UK health body
