[ad_1] For babies born with the serious genetic disease known as "bubble boy disease", a common cold can be deadly. Born without immune cells essential for disease control, they must remain isolated from the outside world for their own protection. The months spent in the hospital and the treatment of serious infections are the norm. … Read more
[ad_1] David Vetter, photographed in September 1982 inside a part of the bubble that was his protective home until his death in 1984. Today, most children born with SCID are successfully treated with a bone marrow transplant, but researchers believe that gene therapy is the future. ASSOCIATED PRESS hide legend activate the legend ASSOCIATED PRESS … Read more
[ad_1] Yet, because of his illness, going outside and in crowds of people put him at serious risk of life – threatening infections, and Hawkins accepted it as the reality of Ja – Ceon – until then. now. Like any mother, Kristin Simpson wanted her baby, Omarion Jordan, to become a healthy boy who could … Read more
[ad_1] NORTHFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) The Vermont Department of Health is investigating Norwich University. State health officials say a few dozen people have reported gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea and vomiting in recent days. Norovirus is a common cause of such symptoms and can spread easily from person to person. A health department spokesman says officials are … Read more
[ad_1] This combination of images provided by the Yale School of Medicine in April 2019 shows colorful photos under the microscope of neurons, in green; red astrocytes and blue cell nuclei of an untreated pork brain for 10 hours after his death, and another with a blood substitute specifically designed to be injected. According to … Read more
[ad_1] A new study indicates that when we die, we know we are dead because our brain continues to function and remains aware of what is happening. Death has always intrigued humanity, and top scientists have always sought to know what happens when a human being dies. There has been a great deal of research … Read more
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO – While Google opposes anti-vaccine misinformation on its platform, the technology giant's campus in Silicon Valley, where thousands of people work, is now facing its own case of measles as the virus recurs in the United States. . In an email sent to employees last week and obtained by BuzzFeed News, a … Read more
[ad_1] William Wan National Correspondent for Health, Science and Information April 17 at 17:00 Ten researchers on Wednesday revealed that ten newborns with a rare genetic disorder, called Bubble Boy's Disease, have been cured by gene therapy. The treatment seems to have completely cleared babies of their immune disorder, with no side effects or complications … Read more
[ad_1] A flight attendant in New York, CNN reported Wednesday, as in the United States. "It's been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we're just hoping for the best," Itamar Grotto, associate director general of the country's Ministry of Health, told CNN. Grotto said the 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or swelling of the … Read more
[ad_1] The researchers used a unique, blood – oxygen – filled, anticoagulant solution called BrainEx, to act as an artificial blood substitute. They filtered and pumped through the circulatory system of the head and began to shockingly see renewed circulation, a metabolic response, and even spontaneous activation of the synapse. However, the research team was … Read more