The news that the first child born to a woman with a transplanted uterus is one of the most important clinical news of the year, according to a survey among clinicians conducted by the American medical news portal Medscape.
The physicians who responded to the survey agree that the biggest news in medicine during the year was the Ebola outbreak (68 percent), followed by the debate about maintenance of certification for physicians in the United States (8 percent). Third on the list of the news that doctors consider to be the greatest medical events of the year is the news that the first child born to a woman with transplanted uterus.
World’s First Baby Born After Uterine Transplant A 36-year-old woman who received a uterus transplant from a live donor in 2013 gave birth to a healthy baby boy in September 2014, according to an article published online October 6 in The Lancet.[13] “Our success is based on more than 10 years of intensive animal research and surgical training by our team and opens up the possibility of treating many young females worldwide that suffer from uterine infertility,” said lead author Mats Brännström, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The report raises several important medical and ethical questions.
The doctors in the survey also got to evaluate the news that made them most proud to be a clinician in 2014, and in this ranking the fact that child was born of a transplanted uterus shared the fourth place. This list is headed by the launch of curative treatments for infection with hepatitis C virus, followed by the news that the persons infected with Ebola in the US had been cured. Here you can read more about the survey: www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/public/year-in-medicine2014#1