Maria Cheng

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4 women with new wombs are trying to get pregnant

Maria Cheng · March 3, 2014 11:45 am

Full recovery for Schumacher unlikely, some say

Maria Cheng · February 28, 2014 3:05 pm

UK seeks public input on making 3-parent embryos

Maria Cheng · February 27, 2014 8:25 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2010 file photo, a festival official touches the lip of a young expensive Majahim, dark-skinned originally from Najd, Saudi Arabia, camel during the final day of Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in outskirt of Zayed City about 120 kms south west of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Scientists say the mysterious MERS virus has been infecting camels in Saudi Arabia for at least two decades and that previous human cases have probably been missed. Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus was first identified in 2012, doctors have struggled to explain how most patients have fallen sick. MERS can cause symptoms including fever, breathing problems and kidney failure. To date, it has killed more than 180 people, mostly in the Middle East though infections have also spread to Europe and northern Africa. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Study: MERS virus infecting camels since 1992

Maria Cheng · February 25, 2014 11:24 am

Greek financial crisis tied to worsening health

Maria Cheng · February 21, 2014 10:13 am

Test could predict which teen boys get depression

Maria Cheng · February 17, 2014 8:54 pm

Doctor diagnoses man with help from TV’s ‘House’

Maria Cheng · February 7, 2014 1:59 am

Vodka to blame for high death risk in Russian men

Maria Cheng · January 31, 2014 12:00 pm

New treatment could reduce kids’ peanut allergies

Maria Cheng · January 29, 2014 11:34 pm

In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo provided by McMaster University, graduate biology student Jennifer Klunk examines a bone sample at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Hamilton, Canada. Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks. Researchers found tiny bits of DNA in the teeth of two German victims killed by the Justinian plague about 1,500 years ago. With those fragments, they reconstructed the genome of the oldest bacteria known. They concluded the Justinian plague was caused by a strain of Yersinia pestis, the same pathogen responsible for the Black Death that struck medieval Europe. The study was published online Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases.(AP Photo/McMaster University)

Scientists find ancient plague DNA in teeth

Maria Cheng · January 28, 2014 12:26 am

To stop MERS, longer quarantines may be necessary

Maria Cheng · May 29, 2013 3:50 pm

In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in England. More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. (AP Photo/Owen Humphreys, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

Measles surges in UK years after flawed research

Maria Cheng · May 20, 2013 4:00 am