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...After Thailand's currency collapsed in 1997, the government directed its tourism officials to market the country as a hot destination for plastic surgery, hoping to boost revenues. Thailand quickly became the go-to country for comparatively inexpensive sex-change operations, where patients faced fees as low as $5,000, as well as looser requirements for pre-surgery psychological counseling. Thailand is now a destination spot for all types of plastic surgery as well as a host of routine medical procedures. Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok is probably Thailand's best-known mecca for medical tourists, boasting patients from "over...
...game. Wright shot 9-for-15 from the field for a game-high 18 points and grabbed six rebounds, with four on the offensive glass. “He’s playing great. He’s very mature, he’s got great hands, very patient,” Pusar said. “He doesn’t seem like a freshman at all, and we don’t look at him like he is one.” The players acknowledge that the most crucial area that needs improvement is their overall sense...
...claims that his team had successfully extracted potentially disease-curing stem cells from a cloned human embryo. However, mere months later, Hwang's reputation dissolved after a Seoul National University panel concluded that much of his research was "intentionally fabricated." Hwang was accused of doctoring pictures of his supposed patient-specific stem-cell lines and was forced to resign. Though the controversy stunned South Korea, the nation resumed its cloning research, and in 2008 it unveiled seven Labrador retrievers, cloned from a drug-sniffing canine, that shared her superior narcotic-detecting abilities...
...Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, performed the first human-heart transplant in the U.S., in 1967. The patient, an infant, received a heart from another child but lived only 6 1/2 hours after the surgery. Despite the loss, Kantrowitz's work ushered in a new era in approaches to heart illness...
...spinal muscular atrophy. According to Eggan, “by the time people are sick, a lot of the disease process is already over.” For example, 80 to 90 percent of the relevant brain cells in Parkinson’s Disease have died before the patient begins to exhibit severe symptoms. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the full progression of a disease, especially in its early stages to find a cure. “We can use stem cells as sort of flight recorders for disease,” Eggan said. “The black...