Seasonal Affective Disorder: Light therapy boxes placed in all NI libraries
Some of the lamps – which are often used for Seasonal Affective Disorder – are available to loan for up to three weeks. Source link
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Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”. The first girl to be … Read more
Oliver, three, is ‘wonderful’ after world-first gene therapy
The toddler has astounded doctors with his progress, nine months after the ground-breaking treatment. Source link
Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy
Fergus WalshMedical editor Chu family A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy. Oliver Chu has a rare, inherited condition called Hunter syndrome – or MPSII – which causes progressive damage to the body and brain. … Read more
Oliver, three, is ‘wonderful’ after world-first gene therapy
Three-year-old Oliver Chu has amazed doctors and his parents after he became the world’s first patient of a pioneering gene therapy to treat Hunter syndrome. Hunter syndrome – or MPSII – is a rare, inherited condition that causes progressive damage to the body and brain. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood … Read more
Business Daily – The rise of online therapy – BBC Sounds
As more digital mental health tools emerge, can ethics keep up with evolving tech? Source link
The life-changing gene therapy that can restore vision
Andrew had known since childhood that one day he would lose his sight. He donated his skin cells to researchers working on a treatment, hoping for a breakthrough not just for himself, but also for his daughter… Source link
Guntur doctors cure drug-resistant bone infection with phage therapy
Dr. K. Kalyan Chakravarthy | Photo Credit: T VIJAY KUMAR Doctors at SHRI Hospital, Guntur, have successfully treated a 72-year-old woman from Bapatla suffering from a chronic, multidrug-resistant bone and joint infection. The patient had battled Acinetobacter baumannii for six months — resistant to all available antibiotics — before being admitted in critical condition in … Read more
Phage therapy: I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo
BBC I’m on the hunt for a microbial saviour – a type of virus that can treat infections rather than cause them. We all know the viral bad guys – Covid, flu, norovirus, herpes, chicken pox, measles… the list goes on. But there’s a type of virus that’s not interested in infiltrating our bodies, instead … Read more
Tom Grennan talks about going to therapy and imposter syndrome
Roman Kemp & Tom Grennan dive into therapy on the You About? podcast. Source link