Australian girl changes blood group, immune system
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An Australian teenage girl has become the world's first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, doctors said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle."
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A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl has been  infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus and her condition  is stable, a doctor said on Thursday.
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CALGARY, Alberta -- A baby elephant has been given a rare blood plasma transfusion after being shunned by her mother and is getting healthier by the day, Calgary Zoo officials say.
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The new epicenter of the global AIDS pandemic is Asia, and its new faces are Asia&#39;s young girls and women. This was highlighted by a recent United Nations report on HIV/AIDS and the theme
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A teenage girl in Wisconsin seems to have made medical history for being the first person to survive rabies after the onset of symptoms.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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Immune systems can perhaps accept tissues from people with other blood types, Canadian researchers find.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.
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Suffering from some kinds of allergy as a child could increase the risk of developing blood cancer in later life, a new study suggests.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake.
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A teenage girl has become the first known person to survive rabies without the benefit of a vaccination, say doctors.
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An 18-month-old girl who has had six heart attacks since she was born is put top of the European transplant list.
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A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl has been infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus and her condition is stable, a doctor said on Thursday.
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Researchers have found for the first time a change in DNA that could put someone at a higher risk for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
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A boy with no immune system being treated with pioneering  gene therapy has developed leukaemia, his doctors say.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists have said. Australian and US teams both claim that they have pinpointed the key proteins involved in the process.