Ovary Transplanted into Woman&#39;s Arm
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This is the latest attempt to find a way to avoid infertility due to cancer treatment -- in this case, radiotherapy. Freezing eggs is not a reliable method, since the thawing process can cause fatal damage and chromosomal abnormalities.
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A Belgian woman who had pieces of her ovaries surgically removed and frozen seven years ago, before cancer chemotherapy left her sterilized, gave birth yesterday to a healthy baby after doctors
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Implanon, a rod-shaped contraceptive implanted in the upper arm for up to three years, received federal approval, health officials said Tuesday.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Someone severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using skin and underlying fat from an organ donor.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A woman from Edmonton has become only the third person in Canada to successfully undergo a lung transplant from two living donors.
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Doctors were able to eliminate the need  for insulin injections in diabetic women for a year or more by  simplifying the technique of transplanting insulin-producing  cells, a small study said on Tuesday.
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Advance could eventually allow women to provide their own tissue for transplants and disease therapy.
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LONDON - The first baby conceived after an ovarian tissue transplant was born Thursday in Belgium in a procedure that could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause.    The birth, announced by The Lancet medical journal, which is to publish the results of the procedure Friday, marks the first time fertility has been restored to a woman after doctors cut out and froze some of her ovarian tissue and transplanted it back into her body years later...
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The return of silicone breast implants continues.
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A woman left infertile after cancer treatment takes her bid  to use frozen IVF embryos to have a baby to Europe.
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A woman transplant patient came face to face with her old heart Tuesday at a British exhibition she hopes will increase public awareness about organ donations.
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A 32-year-old woman in Belgium has become the first woman ever to give birth after having ovarian tissue removed, frozen and then implanted back in her body, doctors are reporting.
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MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Surgery to transplant a woman's entire ovary to her upper arm is feasible and can preserve fertility in patients undergoing radiation treatments that leave them prematurely menopausal, a new report says.
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A year after a Frenchwoman received the world's first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more and more sensitivity and facial mobility.
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Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other.
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A woman of 29 being treated for cervical cancer had one of her ovaries removed and then implanted into her arm, doctors reported yesterday.