Neonatology

World’s oldest doctoral candidate, 102, receives medical research-related PhD

According to the Guardian, German and US-trained pediatrician Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, finally received her PhD on Tuesday almost 80 years after the Nazi regime denied her the right to defend her dissertation because her mother was a Jew.
She was handed her PhD certificate during a celebratory ceremony at the University of Hamburg, according to the newspaper.

Turkish father tries to treat boy's rare illness with home-made medical instrument

A three-month-old baby diagnosed with Crigler-Najjar syndrome (CNS), a very rare illness, has started his treatment at a hospital in the southern province of Antalya, after his father hit headlines for trying to treat him with a home-made mechanism due to a lack of money. 

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