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Health USA

13. July 2021

Landmark Research on Smell Could Help Protect Us from Deadly Diseases

Researchers have provided the first molecular view of a smell (or olfactory) receptor, deepening our understanding of how odors and smells work. And, this historic discovery could even help save us from deadly insects!

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Health UK

11. July 2021

Revolutionary Gene-Editing Technique Shows Life-Saving Promise!

The revolutionary gene-editing technique, CRISPR, seems to be curing a patient from a deadly inherited disease, showing promise in additionally curing many other common illnesses.

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Health Switzerland

3. July 2021

New Radioactive Therapy “Smart-Bombs” Prostate Cancer Tumors

A Swiss pharmaceutical company has developed an experimental radioactive therapy destined to prolong the life of prostate cancer patients who resist to other treatments, paving the way to a new form of cancer therapy.

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Health Switzerland

10. June 2021

Turns Out We Can End AIDS!

Since dozens of countries have achieved or exceeded their 2020 targets in their fight against AIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS plans to set brand new targets for 2025 - and eradicate the virus by 2030.

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Health Gambia

8. May 2021

Families 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 USA

23. April 2021

This 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.

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Health Liberia

18. April 2021

Millions of Children Will Soon Be Protected from This Deadly Fever

The typhoid conjugate vaccine becomes the latest introduced in Liberia – the first African country to do so – and authorities are planning to vaccinate millions of children.

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Health USA

16. April 2021

Turns Out Your Blood Reveals Everything About You (and Can Help Prevent Diseases)

Upon analyzing some 4,000 samples of blood plasma, researchers have discovered that the human body goes through three shifts during its lifetime, and this newfound tool can help health professional better tackle age-related diseases.

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Health Côte d'Ivoire

9. April 2021

Soon The Sleeping Sickness Will Be History in This Country

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated that sleeping sickness is no longer a public health problem in Côte d’Ivoire, and the illness is on its way to being completely eradicated by 2030.

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Health Egypt

22. March 2021

“The End Is Near for This Disease in Our Country,” Says the Ministry of Health

Following concerted efforts from the Egyptian authorities to eradicate Hepatitis C on its territory, the risk to catch the virus went from 7% in 2018 to only 2% in 2021.