It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options. Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one that had never before been tried in a child, or in anyone with the type of leukemia Emma had.
A new study may have found a specific patient population that may live significantly longer by taking this drug: Colon cancer patients.
Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. The fragile toddler had a rare disorder that left her without any bones. Now, at age 7, thanks to medical science, she is developing her own bones with the aid of an experimental drug therapy.
A vaccine developed by scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada is now available in enough doses to launch the first ever human safety trial of an ebola vaccine.
One in five people in the US population is not developing diabetes like they used to — the first sustained improvement in 25 years.
Eight very sick people volunteered for 30 days in the jungle undergoing a holistic alternative healing regimen. A documentary film reveals what the success.
Public health efforts in Africa have prevented 700 million cases of malaria this century, and six million people are alive thanks to their efforts.
A disease that once caused thousands of birth defects every year has been wiped out in most of the Western Hemisphere.
In 1986, the painful Guinea worm disease plagued more than 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia. Last year, there were only 126 cases left -- and thanks to the Carter Center's nearly 30-year campaign, the infectious disease is about to become the second on Earth to eradicated, after smallpox.
With declarations that a new day is dawning in the treatment of hepatitis C, an FDA advisory panel unanimously approved the first of two new drugs to treat the stubborn liver infection. I can look into the faces of the people (with hepatitis C) and offer them some hope, said an NIH doctor.
Every rescue dog deserves a second chance at health and happiness – that's why the people of Chicago made sure Jingles was cured of heartworm.
My good friend Wally Bock wrote an article for his newsletter which he titled Christmas and Cancer Both Begin with C. Wally's mother died of cancer in 1982 after fourteen years as one of the earliest recipients of chemotherapy. One of her life's mottos was What good can we make of this? I was honored when Wally wrote about my experience alongside his mother's.
Cobra. Lamborgini. Ferrari. Porsche. Kids in Oregon who are battling life-threatening illnesses get to choose which supercar they get to spend the day with, thanks to a compassionate car collector in Portland.
Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop died Monday in New Hampshire at age 96. Koop is justly renowned for spearheading the war on tobacco in the 1990s. But Koop was also pivotal, and saved just as many lives, because he forced the Republican Party to address the rampaging AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Inspector James Guida has been in the NYPD for 30 years. He was assigned to command troubled precincts, and for the last four years logged an increase in arrests and hundreds of successful search warrants. While battling the drug scourge, he has been fighting cancer.
Every Thursday morning around 10:30 Dan walks into a Starbucks in Metro Detroit, takes out a list and proceeds to order dozens of drinks. The number depends on who is in the Michigan Cancer Center getting chemotherapy treatments. In 2007 he accompanied his father for Thursday chemo treatments. Since his father's death, he keeps the tradition going. Now, Starbucks fans are donating to the cause.
Nigeria is now free of the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization officially declared on Monday. The most populous country in Africa reported 20 cases and eight deaths before doctors were able to eradicate the disease.
In human trials, researchers used an experimental drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer's for people in early stages of the disease.
The world's first malaria vaccine has been approved by EU officials. The nonprofit drug may help more than 400,000 young children who die yearly from the disease.
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