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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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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Researchers at Lancaster University says that a new drug which can prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease could be tested on patients within six years.
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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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Since the year of 2007, and due to an increase of 65% in screening at the USA, death rates from colorectal cancer decreased in 49 states (Only Mississippi had no change in its death rate) and Washington, D.C., with the largest declines in states with the most screening.
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