Baby with half a heart survives after mum defied doctors advice over abortion

A baby beat the odds to survive even after doctors advised that it would be best to abort her because she was discovered to have just half a heart.

Lisa Ambler, 32, says she was repeatedly told to terminate her pregnancy after unborn daughter Lacey-Janet was discovered to have an issue with her heart. But Lisa, who has cysts on her ovaries which make it difficult to conceive, was determined to go ahead.

Almost immediately after the baby was born, she stopped breathing in her mother's arms and had an eight-hour operation within the first two weeks. Baby Lacey-Janet had a rare condition where the left lower pumping chamber of the heart does not develop properly. Fortunately, she pulled through and will now be able to lead as normal a life as possible.

Lisa said: "It amazes me how she even made it through the pregnancy. When we were told about the problems with Lacey-Janet’s heart we were told to abort but for me it was all a big dream. They kept saying that she wasn’t going to live long but we were never going to abort her."

Lisa, who lives in Hull with husband Michael, added: "She will need heart care for the rest of her life. But after seeing what she has already been through as a tiny baby I am confident she is only going to get stronger."

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OMG! Woman rushed to the hospital after her butt exploded after her implants were infected (Graphic Photos/video)

The really graphic video was taken inside a hospital in Brazil. According to the story, the woman got the butt implants and was recovering when her implants got infected and eventually 'exploded'. The video shows a doctor at a hospital she was rushed to removing fragments of her butt after it ruptured. The woman is expected to survive. See the graphic photos and video below... 

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Hope for sickle cell cure as first sickle cell patient gets cured with gene therapy

This is indeed good news for the world and especially for those living with sickle cell anaemia.

A 13-year-old has been cured of sickle cell anemia with the aid of gene therapy which allowed complete remission of clinical symptoms of disease and correction of biological signs. Gene therapy is the introduction of normal genes into cells in place of defective or missing genes in order to correct genetic disorders.

According to the result of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, when the gene therapy is fully deployed, the patient would no longer have to battle the complications and pain resulting from the disease.

A team led by Pr. Marina Cavazzana in collaboration with Dr. Philippe Leboulch in October 2014 carried out gene therapy in the context of a phase I clinical trial/II in a 13-year-old patient with severe sickle cell disease. In September, scientists reported that gene therapy for sickle cell disease passed key preclinical test.

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See areas where the government and doctors are disagreeing

The mediation team in the doctor’s strike on Thursday maintained that there are three sticky issues that are yet to be resolved.

In a report presented to court Thursday, March 2 morning, the mediation team stated that by Wednesday, March 1, 2017, it received communication that the doctors’ union wished to present a revised proposal to the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors for their consideration.

The report presented before the court sought further directions of the court stating that parties had failed to agree on key issues related to the dispute.
The sticky issues are revision of the basic salary and aspects of the payable allowances.

The report, that has since been treated as an interim report to allow inter-religious of Kenya see whether they can find a solution to the sticky issues, reveals that the Ministry of Health could not change the basic salaries offered to doctors.

“The rationale was that even a small change would have huge fiscal implications as the basic salaries applied to all other categories across the public service,” reads the document.

So far parties have resolved the issue on internship, draft recognition agreement for the 47 counties and majority of the clauses in the draft CBA.

In the interim report, the doctors’ union says that it had on two previous occasions revised its position and reviewed proposals on the basic salaries and allowances, and the government position remained unchanged.

The report reveals that the Ministry of Health together with the Council of Governors have maintained that the CBA 2013 is not legal and asked doctors to call off the strike adding that it was the Ministry and COG was negotiating under pressure.

The Ministry contended that some of the parties that the union seeks to include in the process are different employers who were not parties (privy) to the CBA they were negotiating.

The Ministry of Health demanded that the doctors call off the strike and enter into a return-to-work agreement that would set out the contents of a CBA to be negotiated and adopted.

The Ministry proposed that the return-to-work agreement could be filed in court and the court mandated to monitor its implementation in order to prevent a repeat of the circumstances surrounding the 2013 CBA.

The Council of Governors argued that it has no jurisdiction in implementing the CBA as the correct employer at County level are the County Public Service Boards.

COG further maintained that the union would have to sign separate agreements with each of the 47 County.

The Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled that the report filed in court be treated as an interim report.

Senior Counsel, James Orengo, however, asked the court to treat the report filed by the mediation team as pending, a prayer that was opposed by the Council of Governors lawyer, Eunice Lumala.

“Treat the report as final since the mediation process has failed,” Lumala submitted.

Justice Koome, however, indicated that the issue before the court is an extraordinary matter.

-citizen

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