medicine
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Experimental Vaccine Would Be the First to Fight Off Fungi
The Last of Us, eat your heart out. Scientists at the University of Georgia say they’ve developed a vaccine that should be able to protect against a variety of dangerous fungi. In animal studies, the vaccine prevented severe infections and deaths from three types of fungi that often cause opportunistic illness in people. The team…
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Donor CAR T Cells Show Promise as Cancer Treatment in Early Human Trial
An experimental treatment that uses donor white blood cells to fend off cancer continues to show promise, early research in humans has found. The therapy appeared to be relatively safe and tolerable, and over half of patients with difficult-to-treat multiple myeloma responded to it.
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Long COVID Symptoms Often Fade for People Who Had Mild Infection, Large Study Finds
Research from a team in Israel appears to offer encouraging news: The majority of symptoms tied to long COVID might fade away over time for those who initially had a mild case of COVID-19. The study found that mild cases had a higher risk of more than a dozen health conditions compared to uninfected controls…
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This BodyFriend Massage Chair Strapped Me In, Then Ate My Limbs
The Phantom Medicalcare massage chair claims it acts as a ‘medical device’ for neck and back pain.