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Womb transplants are safe and effective, study suggests

Womb transplants are a safe and effective way of managing infertility for those without a functioning organ, according to Swedish experts who have reported the births of nine children. They say they have carried out the world’s first complete study ...

14 Jun 2022 at 14:06

Woman born without womb says UK’s first transplant gives her ‘glimmer of hope’

A woman who was born without a womb has said the UK’s first womb transplant has given her a “glimmer of hope” that she can one day carry her own child. Hannah Vaughan, who lives in Cheshire but is originally from North Wales, found out that she ...

23 Aug 2023 at 19:19

Health & Wellbeing

TV’s Linda Barker: Menopause gave me alopecia and ‘hideous’ forgetfulness

Linda Barker says one of the most upsetting symptoms of the menopause for her was hair loss. “I had frontal lobe alopecia for a while – horrible, you know? Thank goodness it stopped, for some women it doesn’t stop,” says the 61-year-old. The ...

05 Apr 2023 at 09:00

Womb transplants for trans women ‘many years off’ – UK surgeon

Womb transplants in transgender women in the UK are likely to be “many years off”, one of the surgeons who carried out the UK’s first such operation on a woman said. Professor Richard Smith, from Imperial College London, carried out the ...

23 Aug 2023 at 05:10

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Woman, 34, told she was ‘too young for cancer’ by doctors diagnosed with womb and ovarian cancer three months apart

A woman who went to her GP about changes in her period and backache was diagnosed with womb and ovarian cancer within three months of each other, leaving her “completely shocked” as doctors previously reassured her she was “too young” ...

10 Mar 2023 at 07:00

Babies in the womb ‘smile’ for carrots and grimace for greens, scans reveal

Babies in the womb react to what their mothers eat and grimace when they taste and smell greens but smile for carrots, researchers have found. For the first time, scientists recorded evidence that babies react differently to various ...

22 Sept 2022 at 01:01

UK’s first womb transplant paves way for dozens more

The UK’s first womb transplant means that, in future, dozens of women born without a functioning organ can carry babies of their own. – What has happened? Surgeons have performed the UK’s first womb transplant on a 34-year-old ...

23 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Health & Wellbeing

Everything you need to know about the UK’s first womb transplant

23 Aug 2023 at 08:17

Womb transplant surgeons ‘shed tears’ at delivery of first baby

It is more than 15 years since Professor Richard Smith presented his rabbit study on womb transplants to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in Atlanta in the US. At the time, there was ...

07 Apr 2025 at 21:44

Health & Wellbeing

What are the early signs of womb cancer and how is it treated?

A new, less invasive test to diagnose womb cancer, called WID-easy, has been approved for use in the UK. Using PCR technology similar to that of Covid tests, the process involves a simple swab sent to a lab ...

04 Mar 2025 at 08:29

How did surgeons carry out the UK’s first womb transplant?

Surgeons worked all day and into the night to ensure the UK’s first womb transplant went smoothly. Its success was down to meticulous research, years of sharing knowledge between experts around the globe, ...

23 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Baby girl makes history as first child born in the UK from a transplanted womb

A baby girl has made history as the first child in the UK to be born from a womb transplant. Grace Davidson, 36, from north London, received the organ – also called the uterus – from her older sister, ...

08 Apr 2025 at 09:34

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