Three men who experienced lower body paralysis from a spinal cord injury were able to walk, cycle and swim using a nerve stimulation device controlled by a touchscreen tablet. Patients aged 29, 32 and 41 were previously injured in motorcycle accidents.
Positive news for patients is the change in the draft announcement of the Minister of Health on the list of reimbursed drugs, foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses and medical devices, which has been in force since January 1 this year.
Scientists have found that children who receive the seasonal flu vaccine for years produce antibodies that also provide them with greater protection against new strains, including those that can cause a pandemic.
New research shows that inhibition of the CECR2 gene prevents the progression or metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer.
Following the historic success of a genetically modified pig heart transplant carried out by doctors at Maryland University Hospital in Baltimore in January this year, German scientists plan to start their own farm.
The first patients were vaccinated as part of a clinical trial with an HIV vaccine using mRNA technology.
The MAGE clinical trial has commenced. Its purpose is to assess the effectiveness and safety of VTP-600 - a new immunotherapeutic agent designed for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The study is overseen by Cancer Research UK.
Research conducted at the Department of Hematology, Blood Cancer and Bone Marrow Transplantation of the University Teaching Hospital in Wrocław has provided evidence of the effectiveness of vaccination in a group of patients at particular risk of severe COVID-19. They are patients after bone...
The pandemic has been with us for over two years, but it still seems far away to know all the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the human body. New symptoms of infection and its complications are continuously discovered and documented. Recently, the case of an American who in his letter to the...
Scientists at Harvard T.H. The Chan School of Public Health in Boston suggests that multiple sclerosis (MS) - an incurable disease that affects 2.8 million people worldwide - may be caused by an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection.
Cardiac surgeons from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore successfully transplanted a 57-year-old man with the heart of a genetically modified pig.
We spoke with Professor Marek Jutel, president of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, on the use of depot venom immunotherapy in the treatment of insect venom allergy.
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