US surgeons test pig kidney transplant in a human - BBC News

US surgeons say they have successfully given a pig's kidney to a person in a transplant breakthrough they hope could ultimately solve donor organ shortages.

Mythical And Mysterious Chios, The Land Of Mastica

 

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Portuguese lawmakers approve use of cannabis for medical purposes

The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved the use of cannabis for medical purposes, in the vote of a draft bill from the parliamentary committee on Health, which was based on proposal from the Left Bloc and PAN parties.

Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on "self-eating" cells

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson's and type 2 diabetes.