1 week ago Scots mum urges organ donation discussion after 'miracle' son receives liver transplant

Arlene McNab first suspected her son Zac was not well a few days after he was born three weeks premature in June 2022, when she noticed a bruise on his leg.

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1 week ago Mum demands organ donation discussion after young son’s liver transplant

Arlene McNab first suspected her son Zac was not well a few days after he was born three weeks premature in June 2022, when she noticed a bruise on his leg.

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1 week ago Mother urges organ donation discussion after young son’s liver transplant

Zac had a transplant in July 2022.

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1 week ago The 'miracle' Scottish child who has a liver transplant at just five weeks old as one of youngest ever

A mother whose “miracle” three-year-old son is one of the youngest babies to have received a liver transplant has urged other people to discuss organ donation with their loved ones.

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2 w. ago Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here’s how bleak that future could be | Hanna Thomas Uose

My novel explores the consequences of extreme longevity. Meanwhile, Putin and Xi are pondering immortality in real lifeI was in bed scrolling on my phone when I read the headline: Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality. It took me a long time to get to sleep after that. Not yet, I thought. I pride myself on my prescience, but I wasn’t ready for the future I had imagined to arrive so soon.Since 2017, I’ve been thinking about the implications of longevity research, sketching out possible futures – the shifts in society, the complications and subcultures. This year I published the result of my thought experiment, Who Wants to Live Forever, a speculative literary novel. It follows Yuki and Sam, a couple at a crossroads at the same time that a new drug, called Yareta – which extends the human lifespan by 200 years and preserves youth – becomes available. Sam takes it, Yuki doesn’t, and the novel follows the fallout as the world changes around them. The ...

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4 w. ago Expert fact checks Putin and Xi’s hot mic discussion on organ transplants

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, were caught discussing the possibility of immortality

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4 w. ago Hot mic captures Putin and Xi discussing organ transplant and immortality

Leaders discuss possibility of being immortal with help of organ transplant amid evolving biotechnology

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4 w. ago Putin and Xi caught discussing organ transplant and immortality on hot mic

Leaders discuss possibility of being immortal with help of organ transplant amid evolving biotechnology

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