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Saint Mary's Hospital

Manchester researchers have developed a way to improve the accuracy of breast cancer genetic testing for women from Ashkenazi Jewish backgrounds.

University of Manchester Chancellor Nazir Afzal OBE has become the 1,000th person in Greater Manchester to take part in a huge research project.

Researchers tell an international conference that a new gene therapy for Sanfilippo disease – also known as childhood dementia – has shown promising early results in a proof-of-concept study.

A 20-month-old baby girl has become the first child in the UK to receive a life-saving gene therapy treatment for the fatal disorder, metachromatic leukodystrophy disease (MLD). 

A world-first genetic test to establish if a newborn baby is vulnerable to deafness if treated with a commonly used antibiotic, has been conditionally recommended by NICE.

A baby boy born at Saint Mary’s Wythenshawe, is the first to be part of research in Manchester that could help the recovery of pre-term babies with serious breathing difficulties.

A national fertility study investigating whether removing small growths from the womb improves women’s fertility has launched at Saint Mary’s Hospital.