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Fri 21 Nov 17:41:12 2008
ECG cardiac machine to monitor hearts
An American teenager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device... more
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A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it... more
New Zealanders drug driving habits are to go under the microscope in a new online survey... more
Gene tests may be no better for predicting diabetes risk than having a doctor ask some old-fashioned questions about weight, smoking status and family history, according to two studies published... more
US officials opened the first overseas Food and Drug Administration office in Beijing to ensure the quality of food, drug and feed imports from China... more
Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said in what they believe is a first step toward helping people... more