UNAids latest report shows Aids-related deaths are down 21% and they are at the lowest level since their peak at 2005. Globally, the number of new HIV infections in 2010 was 21% down on that peak, seen in 1997.
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Doctors in London treated an 8 months old baby with a new technique in which implanted cells are acting as a temporary liver, allowing the damaged organ to recover.
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New research shows that the percentage of Americans with heart disease continues to fall. 6% of adults had heart disease in 2010, down from 6.7 percent in 2006. Experts say this can be because of better treatments for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, as well as declines in smoking.
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A new research leaded by doctors at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital gave prostate cancer patients a powerful alpha radiation drug. The new drug was a success – doctors found that the patients who were given the treatment lived longer, and experienced less pain and side effects.
The medics then stopped the trial, saying it was unethical not to offer all of them the treatment.
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William Ludwig, a 65 years old man who suffered from leukemia was the first to sign up for a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. T-cells were removed, re engineered and dripped back to his veins. At the beginning William got so sick the doctors weren’t sure he can make it, but after few weeks the fevers were gone. And so was the leukemia.
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A new discovery shows that the malaria parasite survival in the human bloodstream has a lot to do with a single, crucial chemical that the parasite produces internally. This new discovery provides a powerful tool for new malaria treatment, which infects hundreds of millions of people around the world each year and claims about a million lives — mostly children.
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Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania, who tried a new treatment on 3 patients, say this treatment made the most common type of leukemia completely disappear in two of the patients and reduced it by 70 percent in the third.
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A 12-year-old boy survived and making a miraculous recovery after spending 25 minutes underwater in the Pacific Ocean, the boy is breathing on his own and responding to the doctors.
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McDonald’s is planning to on Tuesday that it will begin serving a healthier happy meal, including a fruit or vegetable with every Happy Meal sold in the U.S.
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The medical team at the University of Alberta Hospital offered a brain cancer patient at the age of 30 to use DCA, a drug used to treat rare metabolic disorders, which also showed the ability to shrink tumors in rats. After 15 months the tumor was gone, 3 other patient who took this drug had their tumors shrink significantly or stop growing.
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