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29 March 2024

Brit teenager gets first 'cure' for diabetes

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A British teenager who owes her life to insulin could now be cured, lending hope to the millions of diabetics across the world.
 
According to a report in 'The Sun', 17-year-old Victoria Parr is the first teenager in the world to have an implant in her upper intestine that will enable food to slip through without being absorbed by her body.

The device that will last for up to a year is to cut the need for medication and aid weight loss, the paper reported.

The doctor who led the operation said the procedure will help "improve the treatment of severe type 2 diabetes and obesity in young people".

Baby born with foetus in abdomen

BANGALORE: A baby was born with a foetus inside his abdomen in the Indian city of Bangalore recently. In medical terms, it is known as 'foetus in fetu' or baby within a baby, reports The Times of India.

The undeveloped doetus was the infant's twin that did not develop during the mother's pregnancy and entered the child's abdomen.

When the baby turned two, he was operated upon to remove the dead foetus. The doctor who operated upon the baby was quoted talking about the foetus by the daily: "Cross-examination showed two limb-like structures at the upper end of the mass, and well-developed bone, cartilage, friable pale areas and cystic structures."

Specialists say it is a rare occurrence, maybe one in 5 lakh pregnancies

Dubai to ban shisha in residential areas

People in Dubai’s residential areas will soon be able to breathe better away from the harmful smoke of shisha when authorities issue new rules forcing cafes either to stop this service or move out, press reports said on Tuesday.

The Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED) said it was working on such rules in collaboration with the Municipality to ensure no shisha will be served in residential areas or in places near schools and mosques.

“The new rules will be issued new month before they are enforced in the following months…we are taking these measures after we received many complaints from people in residential areas,” said Mohammed Al Saadi, director of the trade registration section at DED.

“We have conducted a study showing the harmful effects of shisha cafes on residents…it showed there is a need to restructure licences for those cafes in residential areas and near mosques and schools…we will of course take into consideration the interests of investors and owners of those cafes but they have to abide by new rules relating to the environment and public health,” he told the Dubai-based Arabic language daily 'Emarat Al Youm'.

He said the new rules stipulate that cafes serving shisha would not be given licence or have their existing licence renewed if they are located in those places, adding all of them would be given enough time to adapt to the new situation.

“After those rules are issued, any café or restaurant seeking to serve shisha must get prior approval from DED and the Municipality…we will send letters to all those places soon asking them to adapt to the new situation.”