In UK almost 8000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer every year and it is the fifth most deadly cancer, A new study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the cancerous cells.
A new set of drugs which according to researchers already being tested has the potential to turn the gene back on and stop the spread of the cancer.
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Scientists say that injecting stem cells during a kidney transplant could beat kidney rejection and by that remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system.
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Amy Jung. a 36-year-old Wisconsin resident adopted a cat earlier this month. On the first night she went under a diabetic seizure and the cat started jumping on her, biting her nose just enough to be able to shout her son for help. The cat then jumped up onto her son bed and startled him into action.
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A 9 years old girl from Maine is back home from a Boston hospital after receiving a 6-organ transplant - stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace her own that were being choked by a huge tumor.
51 years old Maria Vargas is fighting stage 4 cancer, and after chemotherapy didn’t work she started a new treatment which costs $10,000 a month. Last month Maria found a bag which was left on her doorstep filled with Avocados and below them an envelope with an anonymous cashier’s check in her name.
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Annaliza Tumanda, A Filipino woman, had to give birth on a roof of a flooded health center after brought there by rescuers when her house got destroyed.
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Canadian Scientist used deep brain stimulation in which doctors apply electricity directly to regions of the brain. In 2 Alzheimer’s disease patients, the brain’s memory hub reversed its expected decline and actually grew.
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Ivo Cardile, a 7 years old kid who was born with severe brain damage, can now walk thanks to his father who built a homemade machine which trained his son muscles to walk. Since then he built 4 more machines to help other disabled kids.
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Once a year, About 800 doctors and medical workers donate their time for a once-a-year free health clinic organized by the non-profit CareNow.
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A new research shows that an experimental virus which attacks tumors is safe and can be a useful drug against hard-to-treat cancers. These findings justify further trials in more patients.
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