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Cystic fibrosis patients surviving longer in Canada than US

Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 15:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

Canadians with cystic fibrosis survive about 10 years longer than Americans with the same genetic disease, according to startling new research that raises questions about how to improve...

Chloe designer's swan song in Paris; fashion gets political

Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 15:49 Last update: about 10 years ago

Solange Knowles was among the fashion, film and music industry stars out for British designer Clare Waight Keller's swan song at Chloe at Paris Fashion Week Thursday. But politics...

Student exclusions from state schools on the increase

Monday, 10 April 2017, 17:35 Last update: about 10 years ago

More 270 students were slapped with an exclusion from one of the numerous state schools round Malta and Gozo because of misbehaving. Information tabled in Parliament by Minister for...

UK grants 1st license to make babies using DNA from 3 people

Sunday, 9 April 2017, 16:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

Britain's Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people to prevent women from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their...

YSL ad triggers sexism outcry as Chanel rockets to space

Sunday, 9 April 2017, 15:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

Chanel rocketed into space Tuesday at Paris Fashion Week in an interstellar-themed show spectacular that saw designer Karl Lagerfeld reach for the stars - and a star-filled front...

Patients' reports may aid prostate cancer treatment choice

Saturday, 8 April 2017, 15:59 Last update: about 10 years ago

Men with early-stage prostate cancer face a dizzying quandary over which treatment to choose but two new studies on side effects may make those decisions a bit easier. The research bolsters...

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