Another person has potentially been cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation. The mutation makes a person naturally resistant to HIV infection. A seventh person has potentially been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer,...

Q&A: Seventh case of potential HIV cure comes with a twist

Alexandra Gomez Arteaga, MD, discusses the rationale behind a retrospective study comparing Orca-T with posttransplant cyclophosphamide-based hematopoietic cell transplantation. Alexandra Gomez Arteaga, MD, hematologist/oncologist in the bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy program at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York, discusses the rationale behind a retrospective study comparing...

Advancements in Stem Cell Transplantation: Comparing Orca-T With PTCy

A 60-year-old German man is likely the seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, doctors announced on Thursday. The man received a bone marrow transplant for his leukaemia in 2015.

Seventh person likely 'cured' of HIV, doctors announce

Know your enemy, know yourself. It's a centuries-old strategy. But even in the present-day war against cancer, achieving it remains elusive. In many cases, cancer cells blend in with healthy ones. They bear no unique molecular markers or targets that we can aim clinical defenses at. That means any deadly strike on enemy cancer cells could result in casualties among healthy ones as well. The untenable toxicity of this artless warfare has led some researchers to rethink the ancient script—and flip it: know yourself, know your enemy.

Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy

A German man is reportedly the seventh person in history to be cured of HIV, according to researchers who will present the information at the 2024 International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany. Multiple tests given to the German man were unable to detect any copies of the virus in his...

A Seventh Person Has Most Likely Been Cured of HIV Following Stem Cell Transplant

COLUMBIA, Mo. — All cancers are difficult to treat, and blood cancers are among the trickiest to handle. However, a common high blood pressure drug is helping to weaken leukemia’s defenses against chemotherapy. Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine are using losartan in a new...

Common high blood pressure drug losartan boosts chemotherapy’s ability to beat leukemia

Metformin, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, helps the body regulate sugar in the bloodstream. Part of the class of drugs known as biguanides, metformin reduces the amount of sugar you absorb from food and the amount produced by the liver. Metformin also impacts the way the body will respond to insulin, the natural substance that regulates blood sugar levels.

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Since his diagnosis with incurable Stage IV brain cancer in 2023, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer revealed that he has been cancer-free for a year after undergoing a world-first treatment based on his own research on immunotherapy to treat melanoma, a type of skin cancer, according to BBC. Last year, following...

Doctor Is Cancer-Free Following World-First Treatment He Developed

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HONG KONG — Mere minutes after Donald Trump was whisked away from his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, following an assassination attempt Saturday, printing machines on the other side of the world were already churning out T-shirts bearing the image of the former president with his ear bloodied and his fist held high.

Trump T-shirts that flooded Chinese retail sites after the shooting have disappeared

He explained in a video post, “The day after that I just went downhill [with a] swollen knee, although I thought that was because my knee was injured from a stack when I was in Hobart running some trails. “[I had] really bad body aches and sweat, and everything...

38-Year-Old Man’s Swollen Knee and Body Aches Led To Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis, Now He’s Urging Others To Get Symptoms Checked As Cancer ‘Doesn’t Discriminate’

Bone cancer is a rare type of cancer, which can go undetected for some time before being diagnosed. Although benign (non-cancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant (cancerous) bone tumors, malignant bone cancer can be an aggressive cancer, and some types grow quickly. Quick progression makes early detection and treatment all the more important.

Bone Cancer Without Knowing: How Long Can It Go Undiagnosed?

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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A chemotherapy drug could cause “significant" hearing loss among cancer survivors, according to a study from the University of South Florida and Indiana University. Researchers and doctors react.

Chemotherapy drug could have a serious and surprising side effect, study finds

Everybody poops, but how often people go could reveal a lot about their long-term health, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. The study of more than 1,400 healthy adults found that people who pooped less frequently also had signs of decreased kidney function. People on the other end of the spectrum, who went far more than normal, showed signs of impaired liver function.

How often you poop can affect your health well beyond the gut, study suggests

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Over 300 deaths suspected to be linked to this summer's record-breaking heat wave are being investigated in a single Arizona County, official statistics showed Thursday morning. A heat report dashboard run by Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and is the fourth most-populated county in the U.S., with 4.4 million people,...

More than 300 suspected heat-related deaths under investigation in Phoenix area

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CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

Dozens of members of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe have been photographed on a riverbank in the remote Peruvian Amazon, near to an area where logging companies have been granted concessions by the country's government.

Rare video shows uncontacted Indigenous tribe members in Peru

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What You Should Never, Ever Do if You Get a Hepatitis C Diagnosis, Doctors Warn

Being able to live independently and enjoy life’s beauty summon feelings of gratitude and euphoria more often now. Undergoing a bone marrow transplant (BMT) is not a quick process. The pre-treatment, transplant, post-treatment and recovery take a long time. Although I rang the BMT unit bell when I left the hospital, I did not celebrate; there were still chances I could contract more graft-versus-host disease symptoms (when the body attacks the donor’s immune system cells). I was still taking Astagraf XL (tacrolimus) to propagate my immune system. I could still get news that the acute myeloid leukemia came back.

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Patients with incurable blood cancer have been dealt a huge blow after a treatment was not recommended for use on the NHS in England.Isatuximab plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone – also known as IsaPD – has been given to certain patients with myeloma, which develops in the bone marrow, since 2020.It was available on the NHS through the Cancer Drugs Fund, which funds cancer medicines in England while they await approval from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).However, Nice has now issued final draft guidance on IsaPD, saying the cost of the drug is “considerably higher” than what...

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A 7th person with HIV is probably cured after stem cell transplant for leukemia, scientists say

A German man has probably been cured of HIV, a medical milestone achieved by only six other people in the more than 40 years since the...

A 7th person with HIV is probably cured after stem cell transplant for leukemia, scientists say

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