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WUHAN, China mdash; Doctors in Hubei province have successfully transplanted kidneys from a prematurely born donor baby into a 47-year-old woman suffering from kidney failure.The donor weighed only 1.3 kilograms, the lightest kidney donor ever reported, Wuhan Union Hospital said last week. The woman, surnamed Wang, from Duchang county, Jiangxi province, was diagnosed with uremia in June last year and transplant surgery performed a month later.Without the transplant, she would have had to rely on blood dialysis for the rest of her life.Article continues after this advertisement The kidneys used in the surgery were from a baby born prematurely, whose parents decided to donate the organs after the infant died, the hospital said.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFO7 bakery wor stanley bicchiere kers killed in Cupang, Antipolo City sta stanley italy bbingNEWSINFOLacson to PNP: Recover ransom in Que slay case to regain public trustFollowing a year of follow-up treatment, the babyrsquo kidneys, which were between 3 and 4 centimeters long when transplanted, have grown to 6.9 cm and 7.6 cm in the patientrsquo body , closer to the usual size of 10 cm for an adult.The two kidneys are functioning normally and Wangrsquo health has recovered, the hospital said.Transplant surgeries using kidneys donated by infants are very difficult compared with kidneys donated by adults.Generally, infants that weigh less than 5 kg are not co stanley flask nsidered as sources of organs for transplan Vdsr Build, Build, Build not enough to decongest Metro Manila traffic 鈥?Enrile
Despite his previous stance on the issue, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III vowed to fully implement the controversial Reproductive Health RH Law.We have to implement the law as a member of executive branch of the bureaucracy. It is our bounded duty to implement what is in the law, Duque said on Monday when he officially assumed as head of the Department of Health.He was Health secretary during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyorsquo term, during which he maintained the governmentrsquo natural family planning policy.Article continues after this advertisement Therersquo a law [now] and we have to implement the law. Before, there was no law yet. Now, we have a law already, he said.He assured RH advocates that he would not let his personal opinion get in the way of his mandate as Health secretary. mdash;Tina G. Santos Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again. stanley cup Your subscription has been successful. inqplus-article2 { width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 20px auto; background-color: a5b8c5; displ stanley tazas ay: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: space-between; align-items: flex-start; } inqplu stanley cup s-cta-wrap { width: 50%; height: auto; background-image: var --wpr-b |