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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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study shows.
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A study of four-year-old twin girls has identified a rogue cell which is the root cause of childhood leukaemia.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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An 11-year-old girl who allegedly had sex with as many as 20 people as a 16-year-old girl watched and coached her has had HIV since birth, an alderman who met with the family said Friday. Alderman Mike McGee Jr. told The Associated Press that he met with the girl Thursday and described her as distraught.
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ome health issues are different when you see them up close. For Deb Hann, HIV/AIDS is one of them, and that prompted her to do something.
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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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One womanâs career as a patient and an activist demonstrates how the understanding of sickle cell disease has changed.
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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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Scientists have developed a new way to treat liver failure by manipulating the immune response.
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Researchers in Canada say it may be possible to reprogramme the immune system to accept tissue from people with other blood types.
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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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Children who are not exclusively breastfed during the first 6 months of infancy have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, according to a report from Australia.
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Karen Wilcox was bewildered and concerned when a rash appeared on her daughter Chloe&#39;s torso. The bumps resembled chicken pox, the Sandy mother thought, but her daughter had received a vaccination for the contagious disease as a baby.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Jerusalem) Israeli researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in helping the bodies of people with HIV/AIDS &quot;recover&quot; their immune systems.
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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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A boy with no immune system being treated with pioneering  gene therapy has developed leukaemia, his doctors say.