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Woman Patient gains weight after fecal transplant from an overweight donor

Feb 6, 2015

An unnamed Rhode Island patient underwent the fecal matter transplant in 2011 to cure a serious bacterial infection C. difficile, which can lead to diarrhea and potentially fatal inflammation of colon. A patien...

World’s First woman with successful womb transplant delivers baby boy

Charles Omedo

Oct 4, 2014

Health

What many respected medical experts thought of as nearly impossible has been made possible in Sweden: a woman gave birth to a baby after undergoing womb transplant. The 36 years unnamed woman was born without u...

Maryam Mirzakhani becomes first woman to win Fields Medal

Platonium

Aug 13, 2014

Innovation

Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to ever win a prestigious Fields Medal, which many view as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Mirzakhani was born and raised in Iran, but received a PhD from Harvard...

Heart problems twice as likely in depressed young women

Platonium

Jun 20, 2014

Health

A new study suggests that young women with depression are about twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease. The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Heart Associati...

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