Professor Richard Scolyer had earned a reputation as a world leading pathologist when he was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in June. The 56-year-old, who has been recognized for his pioneering melanoma research, knew the cancer diagnosis meant “certain death.” Now he’s acting as “guinea pig” and undergoing world-first treatment in an attempt to … Read more
A man in India caught a plant fungal disease in a world-first case of human infection. Medics at the Consultant Apollo Multispecialty Hospitals in India wrote in the journal Medical Mycology Case Reports that the 61-year-old patient came to the hospital with complaints of a recurring couch, hoarseness of voice, difficulty swallowing, a sore throat … Read more
A 5lb newborn boy with a life-threatening heart defect received a world-first partial heart transplant using living tissue that may never need to be replaced. North Carolina child Owen Monroe, who is now four months old, was born with his two main arteries — the aorta and pulmonary artery — fused together in a condition … Read more