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Victims of spinal cord injury can, like Christopher Reeve, be left dependent on a mechanical ventilator to breathe. Now doctors have come up with a way to enable them to breathe normally again.
When West Nile Virus broke out in New York in 1999, it caused panic. Researchers are getting closer to finding a vaccine, monitoring the cities mosquitoes, but the city remains on high alert.
Prostate cancer claims the lives of more than 200,000 men every year. It is easily treated with surgery or radiation but these can have serious side effects. A new treatment avoids the side-effects, using simple metal rods and magnets.
The idea of growing replacement organs or body parts may sound like science fiction, but stem cells could make it all possible. Stem cell cultivation is the medicine of the future, and it is already saving lives.
One in every ten twin pregnancies are affected by a condition that can kill one or both of the twins. An incredible new surgery, conducted whilst the twins are in the womb, is saving many from this fate. Produced by Mentorn
In New York - When 40% of premature births are caused by a rupture in the amniotic sac, an innovative procedure to repair the rupture, using a simple biological glue, has the potential to save thousands if tiny lives. Produced by Mentorn
A new approach to heart attack emergencies - bringing patients back from the brink and improving their chances of a full recovery - by literally breathing life back into the damaged heart. Produced by Mentorn
Hal is a life-size mannequin worth a quarter of a million dollars who's helping trainee surgeons learn how to handle real emergencies.
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