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The world’s first baby has been born following conception with a fully automated, digitally controlled intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) system. ICSI, developed and adopted into widespread use in the 1990s and is now a routine method of assisted conception, achieves fertilization by injecting a single sperm cell into the center of a mature egg.

Nursing poses major metabolic demands on mothers, to which they respond by eating more and saving energy to sustain milk production. There are significant hormonal changes during lactation, but how they lead to metabolic adaptations in nursing mothers remained unclear.

Researchers have created a “metal detector” algorithm called PRRDetect to hunt down vulnerable tumors, in a development that could one day revolutionize the treatment of cancer.

In an effort to address high maternal and infant mortality rates plaguing many of the Southern U.S. states, legislators in Alabama have passed a bill that will allow Medicaid to be more easily accessible for pregnant women, according to the Associated Press.

Research led by Mirvie Inc. has discovered a molecular signal in blood samples that can predict preeclampsia and related conditions months before clinical symptoms appear. Findings suggest a new approach to risk detection that may support precision-based strategies in maternal health.

Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills for an estimated 20 million people.

BARNABAS ZULU EQUALITY Now, an international human rights organisation, has urged African governments to take immediate action to protect children’s rights during the 45th Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC). Speaking during the summit held in Maseru, Lesotho yesterday, Ms. Sally Ncube, the regional […]

Around 10% of underground tunnel workers in Queensland could develop silicosis, our new study has found.

GRACE CHAILE GOVERNANCE activist Isaac Mwanza has argued that the National Assembly, including Speaker Nelly Mutti, overstepped their authority by declaring vacant the Petauke Central seat, previously held by Emmanuel Jay Banda At the hearing of his petition before a seven member bench presided over by the Constitutional Court president, Judge Professor Margaret Munalula, Mr […]

ROGERS KALERO THE precedent which the ruling UPND has set of using law enforcement agencies and prisons to silence the opposition and its critics is sad and dangerous because it will someday back fire and even lead to a civil strife when those who feel persecuted decide to fight back, Peter Sinkamba has warned. Mr […]