medicine
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Experimental Transplant Procedure Allows 3 Kids to Live Without Immune-Suppressing Drugs
Doctors appear to have found a way for some organ transplant recipients to avoid lifelong immune-suppressing drugs. In new research this week, they detail how three children with a rare genetic condition were given a dual bone marrow and kidney transplant in hopes of completely avoiding immune rejection. And up to three years later, the…
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Experimental Gene Treatment May Have Helped Shrink a Woman’s Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
A year later after getting a novel form of immunotherapy, Kathy Wilkes’ metastasising tumours have shrunk and remain at bay.
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Here Are Some Other Emerging Diseases to Keep You Up at Night
The last few years has made it abundantly clear that infectious diseases are not some abstract public health threat — they’re an ever-present and often unpredictable danger. We’re now in year three of the covid-19 pandemic, caused by the then-novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In May 2022, outbreaks of monkeypox began circulating across multiple countries, raising the…
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Your Case of Omicron Might Have Super-Boosted Your Immunity — If You Were Vaccinated
Recent preliminary research might offer some comfort to the many vaccinated Americans who came across Omicron this past winter. A pair of studies suggest that vaccinated people who caught the variant went on to develop a strong and diverse immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in general — more so than people who were vaccinated…