Latin America
Doctors in Argentina have removed a tumor from a woman that was so massive, it looked as if she was pregnant with quintuplets, a lead surgeon said.
The huge growth, tipping the scales at nearly 56 pounds, had been growing inside the 54-year-old patients' uterus for 18 months. It was taken out during a four hour operation at Gandulfo Hospital near the capitol of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Three doctors in Argentina have been charged with homicide in the death of a baby during birth in 2008, the government-funded news agency said Friday.
The doctors were charged because the Santojanni Hospital in Buenos Aires, the nation's capital, did not have an anesthetist on duty when the mother required emergency Caesarean section surgery to deliver the baby, the Telam news service reported.
An anesthetist from another hospital was brought to Santojanni, but the baby was stillborn, Telam said.
Their request seemed simple enough: the patient and his wife, both in their 70s, wanted a copy of what I’d written in their medical file. During their visit, I had watched them refer to a well-thumbed collection of doctors’ notes and medication lists, so when they asked for a copy of my note just before leaving, I assumed it would simply be added to the others
HIV/AIDS
Scientists have discovered three previously unknown human antibodies that neutralize HIV, two of which target a broad range of HIV strains.
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