A Spanish cancer patient has received a 3D printed titanium sternum and rib cage designed and manufactured in Australia. Suffering from a chest wall sarcoma (a type of cancerous tumour that grows, in this instance, around the rib cage), the 54 year old man needed his sternum and a portion of his ri

The controversial journalist/activist Randy Shilts (1951-1994), author of "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic," and "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military," "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" is interviewed about his cont

Researchers say a London man appears to be free of the HIV virus after a stem cell transplant. It's the second such success since 'Berlin patient' Timothy Ray Brow. The London patient has not been identified. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003. He developed cancer and agreed to a stem cell transplant...

In Theaters:5 November 1999 Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spend...

We visited the "Love the Golden Rule" Clinic in Saint Petersburg, Florida to follow up on a story that started 30 years ago when Dr Bob Wallace, the medical director of the clinic help save the life of a patient in the operating room. They had to give him a blood transfusion which resulted in the p...

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old: she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of

By opening one man's eyes to the world... he opened his own. Robert De Niro (in an Oscar nominatedperformance and Robin Williams star in this powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician who uses an expe...

Who would dare to pit one fatal disease against another… inside the body of an six-year-old patient? The results will shatter all expectations.

The first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 932 people in West Africa, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, has arrived in his homecountry on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Pajares, 75, was working for a non-governmental organization in Liberia and was repatriated along with his ...

“This was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis. There are not enough donor human hearts available to meet the long list of potential recipients,” said Bartley P. Griffith, MD, who transplanted the pig heart into patient David Bennett.