47 h. ago ‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic

Fatal infections more likely due to malnutrition, injuries and lack of medical facilities under Israel’s blockadeGaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, research has revealed.Medical supplies are desperately scarce and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the 22-month war, while many others have been weakened by malnutrition, so the high levels of drug-resistant bacteria will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Brit mum's 'unimaginable' rabies death after holiday has life

The bravery of a family who told of their 'unimaginable loss' after a mum died of rabies has helped boost Brits having vaccines against the devastating disease

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9 d. ago Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish

After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackledA decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic considered the largest ever documented in the wild, researchers have identified the microbial culprit responsible: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.In 10 years, the bacterium has ravaged sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a large sea star or starfish, along the western coast of North America, with a loss of 5.8 billion since 2013 – or 90% of the total global population. The sunflower sea star is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of critically endangered species. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Eight babies born in UK with DNA from three people to prevent devastating disease

The scientific method, known as mitochondrial donation treatment, is designed to prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases that are passed down from their mothers

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4 w. ago IVF technique using DNA from three people sees eight babies born free of hereditary disease

Mitochondrial donation treatment is designed to prevent children being born with devastating diseases

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4 w. ago Groundbreaking IVF technique using DNA from three people sees eight babies born

Mitochondrial donation treatment is designed to prevent children being born with devastating diseases

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4 w. ago Eight babies born from pioneering IVF technique to prevent devastating disease

The scientific method, known as mitochondrial donation treatment, is designed to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.

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4 w. ago Dad dies after being bitten by bat as he tried to free it from his home

A family was left devastated after a dad-of-two contracted a deadly disease similar to rabies when he was bitten by a rabid bat as he tried to remove it from his home

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