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Analysis: Antibiotic apocalypse

Antibiotics - BBC

A terrible future could be on the horizon, a future which rips one of the greatest tools of medicine out of the hands of doctors. A simple cut to your finger could leave you fighting for your life. Luck will play a bigger role in your future than any doctor could. The most basic operations - getting an appendix removed or a hip replacement - could become deadly.

 

Dr. Joseph Murray dies at 93; Nobel winner performed first kidney transplant

In 1954, Murray successfully transplanted a healthy kidney from a man and implanted it in his identical twin. He was awarded the 1990 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine.

 

Dishonest doctors: Why physicians lie

We all want to think of medicine as an honorable profession and that the people in it work with integrity, but a new survey shows that may not be exactly true.

 

Vatican criticizes Nobel medicine choice

An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for Medicine to British doctor Robert G.

 

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