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Mum's devastating diagnosis saw her spend Christmas in isolation

Emma Leeming started feeling tired, but she thought it was normal - until she started getting agonising chest pains

Wales Online · Dec 2, 2022

Brave Scots mum announces own death in online post after cancer mistaken for 'trapped nerve'

Judith Green, a craft business owner from West Lothian, tirelessly campaigned to recruit new stem cell donors after being diagnosed with myeloma in August 2019.

Daily Record · Dec 1, 2022

Pakistan gets a new army chief, but will he play the old game?

General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s new military chief, took command this week amid security and economic crises and a deepening political rift between opposition leader Imran Khan and the government. Can the new man on the job stem the chaos, and would that entail the old way of doing military business…

France 24 · Nov 30, 2022

NHS launches stem cell bid to defeat multiple sclerosis in world-first treatment

Stem cell transplants may revolutionise treatment for the country’s most common cause of severe disability in young adults. MS affects 100,000 people in the UK, leading to life in a wheelchair

Daily Mirror · Nov 29, 2022

Trial to assess best course of treatment for patients with MS

Researchers are pitting cutting-edge treatments against one another.

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2022

MS patients turn to crowdfunding and mortgage draws to get disease-halting treatment overseas

This South Australian woman has less than two months to raise more than $90,000 to receive a bone-marrow stem cell transplant she hopes will halt the advancement of the disease.

ABC News · Nov 28, 2022

Math disparities start in kindergarten

Socioeconomic status greatly affects math scores, and this disparity starts in the first years of schooling

Salon · Nov 25, 2022

Calls for tougher fines after latest Telstra scandal

Australia's biggest telcos must be handed larger fine to stem a growing tide of failures by the likes of Telstra, a leading advocate says.

The New Daily · Nov 24, 2022

I asked the world’s top CEOs if they’re taking diversity seriously. Here’s why their answers could change your life

Corporate culture has entered the fourth phase in its history: the integration of purpose and profit, writes Robert Reiss.

Fortune · Nov 23, 2022

Single mum with MS went from renovating her home to needing a mobility scooter in two years

Jade Taylor is hoping to raise £37,500 by February so she can go to Mexico for stem cell treatment

Wales Online · Nov 23, 2022