Seven people have been killed in an outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, with a further 20 deaths "probably" due to the hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Mar 23, 2023
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Uganda has ordered health officials to step up screening along its border with Tanzania following a deadly outbreak of the Marburg virus in the neighbouring country.
Mar 23, 2023
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A mysterious disease that killed five people in Tanzania has been identified as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a cousin of Ebola, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
Mar 21, 2023
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March is Myeloma Awareness Month, and Sikander Ailawadhi, M.D., hematologist/oncologist at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares details about new advancements in research leading to better outcomes for patients ...
Mar 20, 2023
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Introducing bacteria to a tumor's microenvironment creates a state of acute inflammation that triggers the immune system's primary responder cells to attack rather than protect a tumor, according to a new study from the Garvan ...
Mar 13, 2023
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Unlike other forms of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cannot currently be treated with CAR-T cell immunotherapy. The reason is that specific molecular targets with which certain immune cells could specifically ...
Mar 13, 2023
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A type of immune therapy called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has revolutionized the treatment of multiple types of blood cancers but has shown limited efficacy against glioblastoma—the deadliest type of ...
Mar 13, 2023
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People with HIV have impaired immune responses to some pathogens and immunizations, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, they often experienced severe symptoms if infected with SARS‐CoV‐2. New research led by investigators ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Some cities fight gangs with ex-members who educate kids and starve gangs of new recruits. Stanford Medicine researchers have done something similar with cancer—altering cancer cells so that they teach the body's immune ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Over the past decade, human papillomavirus (HPV) has increasingly been identified as a significant cause of certain head and neck cancers—for example, evidence suggests it causes 70% of oropharyngeal cancers in the United ...
Mar 4, 2023
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