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Maren and Ricardo Chamorro pose with their children (from L-R) Johanna, Johan and Thomas and the new family dog Henry during an interview with AFP at their home in McLean, Virginia, Dec. 26, 2019. — AFP
The 'supercells' that cured an infant's grave genetic illness
MCLEAN, United States — When a person's immune system is impaired by a genetic disease, a bone-marrow transplant can be a powerful therapeutic tool, but with a major downside: during the first few months the recipient's defenses against viruses are severely weakened. The slightest infection can lead to a hospital trip.A still-experimental type of treatment known as T-cell therapy aims to assist during this vulnerable period — the months during which the body is rebuilding its natural defenses. After two decades of clinical trials, the technology has been refined, and is being used to treat more and more patients, many of them children.A boy named Johan is one of them.Today he is a mischievous, smiling toddler with a thick shock of light-brown hair, who never tires, playfully...
January 02, 2020

The 'supercells' that cured an infant's grave genetic illness

This handout combination of photographs released on Oct. 3, 2019, by Clinatec Endowment Fund (fonds de dotation Clinatec) shows French tetraplegic 'Thibault' as he stands while wearing an exo-skeleton at The University of Grenoble in Grenoble. — AFP
Paralyzed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton
PARIS — A French man paralyzed in a night club accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists say is a breakthrough providing hope to tetraplegics seeking to regain movement.The patient trained for months, harnessing his brain signals to control a computer-simulated avatar to perform basic movements before using the robot device to walk.Doctors who conducted the trial cautioned that the device is years away from being publicly available but stressed that it had "the potential to improve patients' quality of life and autonomy".The man involved, identified only as Thibault, a 28-year-old from Lyon, said the technology had given him a new lease of life.Four years ago that life changed forever when he fell 12 meters (40 feet) from a balcony...
October 04, 2019

Paralyzed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton

A scientist dissects a mosquito at a research facility in Rockville, Maryland. This week, scientists in Burkina Faso released some 1,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. -Reuters
Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria
SOUROUKOUDINGA, BURKINA FASO - Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of genetically sterilized mosquitoes.Their experiment is the first outside the lab to release genetically altered mosquitoes in the hope of reducing their ability to spread the often deadly disease.It works using a technique called a gene drive, which edits and then propagates a gene in a population - in this case to prevent males from producing offspring.Investments in anti-malarial drugs, mosquito nets and insecticides have slowed malaria over the past two decades in Africa, which accounts for more than 90% of global cases.But malaria still killed more than 400,000 people across the continent in 2017, and...
September 18, 2019

Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria

An Ivorian doctor uses a tablet computer in Bouake hospital's trailblazer telemedicine departement for heart diseases, in Bouake on June 20, 2019. -AFP
In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients
BOUAKE, IVORY COAST - Every time Catherine Coulibaly's 19-year-old son had to make a routine appointment with the cardiologist for his heart condition, she gritted her teeth as she silently counted the financial cost.It wasn't just the hospital fee -- there was the transport, food and accommodation, too, all of it amounting to a hefty burden for an Ivorian family on a modest income.But thanks to telemedicine -- consultations that doctors conduct through the internet or by phone -- this cost is now a fading memory.Her son can book an appointment at a telemedicine facility in a nearby town in northern Ivory Coast.There, he is attached to monitoring machines which send the data to Bouake University Hospital in the center of the country, where it is scrutinized by a heart doctor.The...
September 16, 2019

In Ivory Coast, telemedicine revolution proves blessing for heart patients

Cancer cells are seen on a large screen connected to a microscope at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, Germany. -Reuters
Cancer overtakes heart disease as biggest rich-world killer
LONDON — Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in wealthy countries and could become the world's biggest killer within just a few decades if current trends persist, researchers said on Tuesday.Publishing the findings of two large studies in The Lancet medical journal, the scientists said they showed evidence of a new global "epidemiologic transition" between different types of chronic disease.While cardiovascular disease remains, for now, the leading cause of mortality worldwide among middle-aged adults — accounting for 40 percent of all deaths — that is no longer the case in high-income countries, where cancer now kills twice as many people as heart disease, the findings showed."Our report found cancer to be the second most common cause...
September 03, 2019

Cancer overtakes heart disease as biggest rich-world killer

A model wears a bacteria-infused Skin II bodysuit which is claimed to improve body odor, encourage cell renewal and boost the immune system. –Courtesy photo
Body odour? Bacteria-embedded bodysuit may help
LONDON - Deodorant not enough to stop your body odor? A new futuristic-style bodysuit with live bacteria embedded in it could help combat those unpleasant smells.The pale grey, long-sleeved "Skin II" contains healthy probiotic bacteria, reducing the smell of body odor, said its designer Rosie Broadhead."It's not the sweat on your body that causes body odor, it's the bacteria. So we've incorporated healthy bacteria into the textiles to enable a healthy microbiome which will help to reduce your body odor," said Broadhead."This change in the microbiome is associated with reducing your body odor, encouraging cell renewal and is really good for the skin's immune system," she said.Broadhead developed the garment as part of her postgraduate degree at...
August 14, 2019

Body odour? Bacteria-embedded bodysuit may help

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Caution: remove false teeth before surgery
PARIS - This is the story of a 72-year old retired electrician in Britain -- let's call him "Jack" -- who forgot to tell his surgeon that he wore dentures.Anyone reading this account of what happened next is unlikely to make the same mistake.Six days after having a benign lump removed from his belly while under general anesthesia, Jack turned up at the emergency room.He complained of blood in the mouth, difficulty swallowing, and pain so intense that he couldn't eat solid food.Noting a history of lung problems, doctors assumed he had a respiratory infection, according to BMJ Case Reports, a medical journal that describes medically noteworthy cases.They prescribed mouthwash and antibiotics, and sent him on his way.But two days later, Jack showed up again with worsened...
August 13, 2019

Caution: remove false teeth before surgery

This handout photo taken on July 13, 2019 by the Guangzhou Wolbaki Biotech Company shows mass rearing of adult mosquitoes in containers at the Wolbaki company in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province. — AFP
Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes
TOKYO — A breakthrough technique harnessing two methods to target disease-carrying mosquitoes was able to effectively eradicate buzzing biters in two test sites in China, according to research published on Thursday.The mosquitoes targeted are a type that is particularly difficult to control called Aedes albopictus — more popularly known as the Asian tiger mosquito -- which are a major vector for diseases including Zika and dengue.The study "demonstrates the potential of a potent new tool", wrote Peter Armbruster, a professor at Georgetown University's department of biology, in a review of the work.Researchers harnessed two population control methods: the use of radiation — which effectively sterilizes mosquitoes — and a strain of bacteria called Wolbachia that leaves...
July 17, 2019

Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg
LONDON — With poor diet now topping smoking as a health hazard, the world must put good nutrition over empty calories, especially in emerging Asian economies, according to the winner of a prestigious global prize dubbed the 'Nobel for food'.Seed breeder Simon Groot - an octogenarian whose family has cultivated seeds for hundreds of years - said the world must tackle malnutrition by boosting vegetable and crop varieties.This was particularly pertinent in Asia, he said, as it was growing in wealth and its people were increasingly opting for starchy, high-calorie rice and meat over nutritious vegetables.Poor diet has overtaken smoking as the world's biggest killer, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease study, causing 20 percent of deaths globally in 2017."As...
June 10, 2019

'Nobel for food' winner tells ailing world to eat more veg

WHO recognizes 'burn-out' as medical condition
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized "burn-out" in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.The decision, reached during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, which wraps up on Tuesday, could help put to rest decades of debate among experts over how to define burnout, and whether it should be considered a medical condition.In the latest update of its catalogue of diseases and injuries around the world, WHO defines burn-out as "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed."It said the syndrome was characterized by three dimensions: "1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; 2)...
May 27, 2019

WHO recognizes 'burn-out' as medical condition

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