HIV cured in baby for the first time – scientists
By Jean-Louis Santini
Researchers said Sunday they had, for the first time, cured a baby born with HIV – a development that could help improve treatment of babies infected at birth.
Researchers said Sunday they had, for the first time, cured a baby born with HIV – a development that could help improve treatment of babies infected at birth.
An Australian toddler had a lucky escape after being attacked by a python which wrapped itself around the sleeping child’s arm and then began constricting and biting the infant.
“Fortunately lucky” was how a doctor described the newborn babies in the pediatric ward of Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, after a stray bullet went through the second floor roof of the building early Tuesday, New Year’s day.
At least six Filipino babies were born at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Of this number, a baby boy and a baby girl were declared by the Department of Health as winners in its search for the 21st Century Babies. The boy, Voughn Abuda, was born at Amang Rodriguez Medical Center in Marikina, while the girl, Milena de Leon, was born at Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City. The babies were awarded lifetime medical coverage by the DOH.
Noelle Joy Klinker’s parents welcomed her into the world at 12:12 p.m. on 12-12-12 after her mother was in labor for about 12 hours.
German pastor Gabriele Stangl said she would never forget the harrowing confession she heard in 1999. A woman said she had been brutally raped, got pregnant and had a baby. Then she killed it and buried it in the woods near Berlin.
The househelper of a mother who lost her newborn baby at a Quezon City hospital is now being considered as a suspect in the abduction case.
The Gabriela Women’s party list group has taken up the cudgels for the mother of newborn baby boy taken from her side at the Sta. Teresita General Hospital, and said any insinuation that the kidnapping had been a farce must be retracted.
A 49-year-old U.S. woman has given birth to her grandson after her daughter was precluded from becoming pregnant because of a heart condition.
Honduran police have arrested a woman said to have sold her two-month-old daughter for 100 lempiras ($5) and $1 worth of grapes, local media reported Saturday.
In-vitro fertilization (IVF) has given the world about five million new people since the first test tube baby was born in England 34 years ago, according to an estimate released on Monday.
A cheap, simple device widely used to monitor blood oxygen can help save newborn babies with congenital heart defects, a study in The Lancet determined on Wednesday.
Babies still too small to speak know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers at an Australian university who have spent two years filming the behavior of young children.
