Cleveland surgeons perform nation’s first uterus transplant
CLEVELAND (AP) — Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation's first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy.
Daily pot smoking on U.S. college campuses at 35-year high: study
The number of U.S. college students smoking marijuana every day or nearly every day is greater than it has been in 35 years, according to a study released on Tuesday. Nearly 6 percent of college students reported using pot daily or near-daily in 2014, up from 3.5 percent in 2007 but less than the 7.2 percent recorded in 1980, the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study found. “It's clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation's college students,” said Lloyd Johnston, the study's principal author.
China’s ‘blood famine’ drives patients to the black market
By Alexandra Harney SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s rising demand for healthcare is exposing a chronic shortage of an essential commodity: blood. With hospital blood supplies tight, desperate patients are turning to agents known as “blood heads”, who sell certificates that give patients access to state blood banks, creating a black market at the heart of the healthcare system. “If there were no blood heads, what would I do?” The blood “famine”, as it has been dubbed, is an unintended consequence of China’s attempts to restore faith in the nation’s scandal-stained blood supply and encourage people to donate. In the late 1980s and 1990s, local officials urged farmers to sell their blood and plasma, and an earlier generation of blood heads sold this to hospitals and blood banks.