Woman Who Lost Limbs to Flesh-Eating Bacteria Gets New Hands

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“TODAY” featured the amazing update of Aimee Copeland, who lost her left leg, right foot and both hands to a rare, flesh-eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis last year while ziplining. She received a new pair of high-tech prosthetic hands called Touch Bionics that will change her life. With the new hands, which she got for free for being the technology’s spokesperson, she’s now able to write her name, slice strawberries and relearn how to use utensils.

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Tarantula Treatment: Medicine’s Next Big Thing?

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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy leaves families with few treatment options and little hope. But now a creepy, crawly creature could change that!

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Kayla Wheeler, Teen Swimmer With No Legs And Only One Arm, Is A World Champion (VIDEO)

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Breaking a world record is a huge accomplishment for any athlete, but 16-year-old Kayla Wheeler has managed to do it with no legs and only one arm.

The high school student from Washington was born with three congenital amputations, according to KCPQ. She took to swimming at a young age as a form of physical therapy. Today, she’s a Paralympic swimming champion — and currently holds the world record in the 50 meter butterfly.

“It’s kind of indescribable,” her mother, Joyce Wheeler, told KCPQ. “When they announce her name and she’s representing the United States I get goose bumps all over. I’m so amazed that’s my child.”

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New discovery may be step toward ending malaria

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Worldwide elimination of malaria would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). But eradication remains elusive, because the parasite that causes the disease can evolve to withstand the effects of new malaria drugs and become drug-resistant.

Researchers, however, now believe they have discovered a way to track the spread of drug-resistant malaria, and this discovery may help to finally eradicate the disease. Their study was recently published in the journal Nature Genetics.

“We’ve seen past cases of (malaria) drug resistance spread in a specific pattern,” said study author Nicholas White from Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and the University of Oxford in the UK. “It starts in Cambodia, spreads across Southeast Asia and crosses over to Africa, killing millions of children in the process.”

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DR Congo toughest place for mothers – Save the Children

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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the world’s toughest place to raise children, Save the Children reports.

Finland was named the best place to be a mother, with Sweden and Norway following in second and third places.

The charity compared factors such as maternal health, child mortality, education and income in 176 countries.

In India, over 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born, accounting for 29% of all newborn deaths worldwide, the report says.

The 10 bottom-ranked countries were all from sub-Saharan Africa, with one woman in 30 dying from pregnancy-related causes on average and one child in seven dying before his or her fifth birthday.

In DR Congo, war and poverty have left mothers malnourished and unsupported at the most vulnerable time of their lives.

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Women pioneers in medicine

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This is an informative gallery of women pioneers in medicine, we probably all heard of Florence Nightingale shown below. There are many more.

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Ladies are you tired of cellulite?

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Dr Greger suggests a diet change that reduces saturated fats. A vegetarian diet reduces the risk of fat storage that produces cellulite. So if you eat less animal products, you are healthier, thinner and better looking (less cellulite). Your choice ladies.

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Conjoined Twins A’zhari and A’zhiah Jones Separated In Rare ‘Phased’ Surgery (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Doctors in Virginia made science history on Monday when they successfully completed a first-of-its-kind surgical procedure to separate six-month-old conjoined twin girls.

The 14-hour operation was performed at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU in Virginia, where the girls are now in stable condition.

A’zhari and A’zhiah Jones of Franklin, Virginia, were born as so-called thoracopagus twins, meaning their bodies were fused at the abdomen and that they had heart abnormalities.

The first stage of the Jones twins’ phased separation began in October 2012, when surgeons divided their shared liver, and then closed the girls’ abdomens back up.

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British Mom Dies Day After Cancer Diagnosis

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Kirsty Allen was your normal, healthy young mother. Mom to Ebony, 6, and Adam, 2, the 29-year-old from Annfield Plain, County Durham, UK worked part-time as an office administrator. She was looking forward to a ceremony at St. Joseph’s Church in Stanley, where she’d be named godmother to her brother Karl’s 5-month-old son Austen. Tragically, that rite never happened. The family still gathered at the church, but under a much darker circumstance: Kirsty’s funeral.

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Can men get breast cancer?

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Although breast cancer is rare in men, it can and does happen. Both boys and girls are born with breast tissue, which consists of a few ducts found under the nipple area. The difference is that at puberty, a girl’s hormones cause her breast ducts to grow whereas a boy’s hormones don’t. Because male breast cells are less developed and are not bathed in female growth-promoting hormones, they are much less likely to develop breast cancer.

Unfortunately, because of the common misconception that men can’t get breast cancer, when a man really is diagnosed with it, the cancer is usually at an advanced stage. Breast cancer occurs when the cells in the breast grow abnormally and divide more quickly. These cells form a tumor that may then spread to surrounding tissue, to the lymph nodes or to other parts of the body. The most common type of male breast cancer affects the milk ducts and is called ductal carcinoma. Another type, known as lobular breast cancer, affects the milk-producing glands and is much more rare because men have few, if any, of these glands.

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