Screw plastic, I want my joints au natural

University of Missouri and Columbia University researchers have found a way to create biological joints in animals, and they believe biological joint replacements for humans, using a patient’s own cells, aren’t far away.

Biological joints could replace artificial joints | KurzweilAI

Streamlining the delivery of vaccine from the lab to the needy

Nicaragua is the first developing country to start immunising children with a new pneumonia vaccine this month (12 December), the same year the vaccine was released in the United States. This is the first vaccine purchased by the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) mechanism, launched in June 2009, which brings donors and pharmaceutical companies together to speed up access to new vaccines in the developing world.

Pneumonia vaccine gets quick launch in Nicaragua - AlertNet