Medical research

Clinical trial begins using CAR T cells to potentially cure HIV

UC Davis Health researchers have dosed the second participant in their clinical trial looking to identify a potential cure for HIV utilizing CAR T-cell therapy. The novel study uses immunotherapy. It involves taking a patient's ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study: Vaccine helps drug keep melanoma patients cancer-free

Adding a personalized cancer vaccine to the blockbuster drug Keytruda kept more melanoma patients in remission than the immune therapy alone, co-developers Moderna Inc. and Merck & Co. said in their first detailed presentation ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How to achieve a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B

More than half of people with chronic hepatitis B have a form of the disease in which the immune system almost never achieves sustained control, despite many years of treatment. According to current knowledge, those affected ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

TB kills 75,000 children in Africa every year: How this can stop

Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. Half of the world's 30 highest TB burden countries are in Africa. In many of these countries, TB is the leading cause of death across age groups, but especially among ...

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