DIY faecal transplants? Don’t try this at home: Saffron Cassidy suffered from ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease, for 15 years before she allegedly cured it using her partner’s poop. “It’s been about three and a half years of having no symptoms whatsoever,” she told Yahoo Life. “And my colonoscopies show complete histologic …
Hundreds of transplants missed each year because families didn’t know relative’s wishes: A reluctance to talk about death is leading to hundreds of life-saving transplant opportunities being missed, say the NHS. More than three families a week are refusing donation of their deceased loved ones' organs – because they didn't know what their relative wanted. …
Medical law expert on womb transplants, unisex pregnancy, and the ‘right to gestate’: Shutterstock Could a womb be transplanted into a transgender woman – or even cisgender (non-transgender) men? Could pregnancy soon be unisex? These questions may sound as though they come from a sci-fi novel, but this week these speculative questions were seriously posed …