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Health USA

7. February 2022

This Disease-Detecting Machine Accomodates More Patients Than Ever

Researchers affiliated with Ohio State University (OSU) have created a new and improved MRI machine that helps people with limitations - from pacemakers to claustrophobia - get much better access to the treatments they need.

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Health USA

25. January 2022

Scientists Find Solutions to Diagnose Rare Diseases Fast

Scientists from Stanford University in California, United States managed to sequence human DNA in record-breaking time - 5 hours and 2 minutes, to be exact - to diagnose rare genetic diseases, and they are hopeful to soon cut the sequencing time in half.

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Health USA

15. January 2022

Hope for Many: First Organ Transplant of This Kind in History

In a highly experimental, unprecedented surgery, doctors have successfully placed a gene-edited pig heart into a patient. Days after the surgery, the 57-year-old heart recipient, David Bennett, is doing well.

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Health USA

9. December 2021

A Cure for an Incurable Disease: This Method Sparks Hope

Stem cell technology has given hope to scientists around the world that HIV, a disease long thought to be incurable, now has a cure in sight.

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Health USA

24. November 2021

A Vaccine Against Lyme Disease Is in the Works

A team of scientists affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, have developed the very first mRNA vaccine against Lyme disease, and tests are proving to show promise.

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Health Congo

15. November 2021

Vaccine Rollout Aims to (Re-)Eradicate Polio

A recent Polio type 2 outbreak in Africa led to the authorization of a novel polio vaccine, which has to date vaccinated over 80 million children across six African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Congo, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone.

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Health USA

12. November 2021

Vaccine Against the Deadliest Breast Cancer Is in the Works

There will soon be a vaccine to prevent the deadliest form of breast cancer, since researchers based in Cleveland, United States are about to launch the first human trial testing - giving hope to patients suffering from this fatal cancer.

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Health Germany

3. August 2021

Pharmaceutical Giant Plans New Vaccine Against Malaria

The German pharmaceutical company behind the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine is now embarking on a project to create another vaccine, aimed at eradicating Malaria in African countries, and to implement vaccine supply solutions.

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Technology UK

24. July 2021

Say Hello to the Robot That Helps Save Lives

For the very first time, paramedics in the United Kingdom can count on a robot to perform chest compressions on ambulance patients, giving them a better chance of survival.

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Health China

19. July 2021

This Country Is (Malaria) Free At Last!

Following 70 years of effort, China has finally been declared malaria-free from the World Health Organization, becoming the first western Pacific region to achieve this feat.