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Every rectal cancer patient in a small clinical drug trial conducted by New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has seen their cancer go into remission after receiving an experimental immunotherapy treatment. The findings were published by researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 5th. One of …

Two cancer patients treated with an innovative gene therapy were confirmed to be in remission after more than 10 years, according to a new study, prompting its lead researcher to declare that a “cure” for some forms of the disease could be on the horizon. A study published in Nature …

Six people were children living near the Fukushima nuclear power plant at the time of the 2011 disaster, when the facility was heavily damaged in an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The plaintiffs have since developed thyroid cancer, blaming radiation that seeped from the power plant for their condition. “Some plaintiffs …

About 52% of people counted as Covid-19 patients in England aren’t actually in the hospital because of the virus. Rather, they were admitted for treatment of other medical conditions and only tested positive during routine screening. The latest government figures show that, as of Tuesday, 6,767 of the 13,023 patients …

Canada’s Ontario province has acknowledged that many of the people reported to be hospitalized with Covid-19 were actually admitted because of other health conditions and were incidentally found to be infected with the virus. Of the 3,220 people hospitalized with Covid-19 in the province, 54% were admitted because of the …

The system, which will be funded nationally and tested in Bucheon, on the outskirts of Seoul, will begin operating in January. Using facial recognition and AI, it will take advantage of the city’s 10,820 security cameras to track the movements of active cases and their close contacts, and to determine …

“[The virus] has been observed to last 80, or even over 100 days,” said Anna Popova, the head of the Rospotrebnadzor health watchdog, in a radio interview with Moscow tabloid KP.  “The latest research shows this. And of course, no doctor will take a patient off the sick list who …

During a coronavirus press conference on Thursday, Ardern was asked by a reporter about an “allegation of sexual relations between a patient and a visitor at Auckland Hospital,” and whether it could be considered a “high-risk activity in the current climate.” As Ardern’s expression appeared to convey shock and disgust …

Speaking on Friday, Health Minister Jens Spahn said people who have not been vaccinated against the virus have a responsibility to others including those under the age of 12 who are unable to be inoculated.  He said the virus would very likely find people who have not yet been vaccinated …

The pipe linking the hospital’s intensive care unit with an underground oxygen reservoir broke on Monday evening, local media reported. The acting health minister of Russia’s Northern Ossetia Republic, where the incident occurred, confirmed that at least nine people died in the incident. All nine died as a result of …