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Health France17. June 2021Groundbreaking Tech Lets Blind People See Again!
Researchers from Sorbonne University in Paris, France, have found a way to give blind people their sight back using optogenetics, a brand new technology that gives hope to millions of patients suffering from impaired vision.
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Health Switzerland5. June 2021No More Discriminating Nicknames for Coronavirus
The World Health Organization has decided to identify Corona variants with Greek letters instead of the country where they were first discovered not only to simplify discussions, but to get rid of the stigma around the names.
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Technology USA19. May 2021Paralyzed People May Soon Use Their Minds to Write
A team of scientists in the United States have proven the efficacy of a groundbreaking device that helps paralyzed people communicate more easily after a quadriplegic man was able to “mind write” with astonishing accuracy.
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Health UK17. May 2021Babies Get Life-Saving Surgery… While Still in the Womb
Teams of doctors in London, United Kingdom are now able to operate on unborn babies who suffer from spina bifida - a spinal malformation - thus sparing them from paralysis and other health problems once they are out of the womb.
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Health Gambia8. May 2021Families No Longer Have to Worry About This Blindness-Causing Disease
Gambia becomes the second African country to eliminate trachoma - a disease that can cause blindness - as a public health problem, an encouraging milestone towards the World Health Organization's target of curbing 20 neglected tropical diseases by 2030.
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Health Burkina Faso6. May 2021This Vaccine May Help Get Rid of Malaria
According to trials on children in Burkina Faso, malaria could be a thing of the past thanks to a highly-effective vaccine that could potentially cut down the death toll enough to envision the eradication of the disease in Africa.
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Health USA23. April 2021This Breakthrough Vaccine Fights HIV (and More!)
A laboratory in California, United States managed to develop a vaccine that targets the right immune cells to fight HIV, showing great promise as the first stage of a vaccine strategy in the fight against this deadly virus - and other viral diseases.