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Trump admin axes safeguards against 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
AFP, Published on 15/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday moved to scrap limits on several toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water, reversing what had been hailed as a landmark public health victory.
'Blessed': US woman sees second chance in life after pig kidney transplant
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» WASHINGTON - Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail years later due to pregnancy complications.
Australian woman charged in ‘mushroom murders’
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» SYDNEY - Australian police charged a woman with murder on Thursday over a mushroom meal that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
Australian woman arrested in lethal mushroom mystery
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» SYDNEY - Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
US surgeons report longest successful pig-to-human kidney transplant
AFP, Published on 15/09/2023
» WASHINGTON - US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days.
US surgeons say pig kidney functional in human for more than a month
AFP, Published on 17/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain dead patient said Wednesday the organ was still working well after a record 32 days -- a significant step in the quest to close the organ donation gap.
The 'kidneys of Kolkata': Indian wetlands under threat
AFP, Published on 18/07/2023
» KOLKATA - Wetlands just outside India's Kolkata have for generations provided tonnes of food daily and thousands of jobs as they filter sewage through fish ponds -- but rapid urbanisation is threatening the ecosystem.
Indonesian parents seek justice after cough syrup crisis
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» JAKARTA: Dinosaur-themed birthday decorations still hang on the walls of Safitri Puspa Rani's home, where the family celebrated their youngest son's birthday last year.
Hair transplant fad turns deadly in India
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» NEW DELHI: All that balding Indian television executive Athar Rasheed wanted was to look handsome and get married. But the 30-year-old's seemingly harmless hair transplant went fatally wrong.
Detainee's tale of torture under Russians in Kherson
AFP, Published on 17/11/2022
» KHERSON (UKRAINE) - He was held for weeks in detention, beaten and electrocuted. He urinated blood. He lost 25 kilogrammes and thought of killing himself.