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Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys
After receiving injections of genes that produce color-detecting proteins, two color-blind monkeys have seen red and green for the first time. Except in its extreme forms, color blindness isn’t a debilitating condition, but it’s a convenient stand-in for other types of blindness that might be treated with gene therapy.
The monkey success raises the possibility of reversing those diseases, in a manner that most scientists considered impossible.
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Premature baby 'left to die' by doctors
A young mother's premature baby died in her arms after doctors refused to help because it was born just before 22-week cut-off point for treatment. Sarah Capewell, 23, gave birth to her son Jayden when she was 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy.
Although doctors refused to place the baby in intensive care, Jayden lived for two hours before he passed away at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, last October...
[Government run health 'care'.]
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Hospital food bingo: patient posts photos of food asking people to guess the dish
A hospital patient has become so disgusted with the quality of food on his ward he has taken photographs of the meals and posted them on the internet inviting people to guess the dish.
So far the 47-year-old's followers have failed to correctly identify half of the meals;
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Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys
After receiving injections of genes that produce color-detecting proteins, two color-blind monkeys have seen red and green for the first time. Except in its extreme forms, color blindness isn’t a debilitating condition, but it’s a convenient stand-in for other types of blindness that might be treated with gene therapy.
The monkey success raises the possibility of reversing those diseases, in a manner that most scientists considered impossible.
READ MORE
Premature baby 'left to die' by doctors
A young mother's premature baby died in her arms after doctors refused to help because it was born just before 22-week cut-off point for treatment. Sarah Capewell, 23, gave birth to her son Jayden when she was 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy.
Although doctors refused to place the baby in intensive care, Jayden lived for two hours before he passed away at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, last October...
[Government run health 'care'.]
READ MORE
Hospital food bingo: patient posts photos of food asking people to guess the dish
A hospital patient has become so disgusted with the quality of food on his ward he has taken photographs of the meals and posted them on the internet inviting people to guess the dish.
So far the 47-year-old's followers have failed to correctly identify half of the meals;
''I don't know whether the chef used an industrial hardener or simply drove out the moisture with a flamethrower "...
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