A 32 year old woman, who was born without a womb, has given birth to a healthy baby girl following a womb transplant from a dead woman. The 10-hour transplant operation, and later fertility treatment, took place in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2016. Previously there have been 39 womb transplants using a live donor, including mothers donating their wom ...…

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health were interested in learning more about what makes blood pressure tend to rise as we get older, and whether this still happens on a diet with very little salt. So they decided to study two remote tribes in Venezuela, one of which has Western influences on their diet because of the pr ...…

As well as the immediate danger from the Californian wildfire flames, areas close by have been shrouded in smoke, with air pollution as much as ten times higher than even on the most polluted days when there are no fires. John Balmes, Professor of Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, has conducted research in Malawi lookin ...…

London is on course for the highest number of killings in a decade after the total this year surpassed the figure for the whole of 2017. Most of the victims are teenage boys or young men living in deprived areas, stabbed by other teenage boys or young men. The Royal London Hospital specialises in this kind of injury and one of their surgeons, P ...…