World First: Heart Bypass Surgery Performed Without Cutting the Chest
Doctors at NIH and Emory performed the world's first coronary artery bypass through blood vessels in the legs, eliminating the need to crack open…
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Schools Are Finding That Bike Rides Can Help Kids Settle and Focus
A Reasons to be Cheerful report shows how school-day cycling programs can support attention, confidence and calmer classrooms.
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Colon Cancer Breakthrough: Immunotherapy Before Surgery Keeps Patients Cancer-Free for Nearly 3 Years
A UK-led clinical trial found that just nine weeks of immunotherapy before surgery left colorectal cancer patients with zero relapses after nearly three years — dramatically outperforming standard chemotherapy.
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Simple Amino Acid Supplement Dramatically Reduces Alzheimer's Damage in New Study
Researchers found that arginine — a cheap, widely available amino acid — can reduce toxic amyloid protein buildup in the brain, improve behaviour, and lower brain inflammation in Alzheimer's models.
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Gene Therapy During Heart Bypass Could End Repeat Surgeries Forever
Scottish doctors treated the world's first patient with cardiac gene therapy during routine bypass surgery, strengthening grafted blood vessels t…
February 9, 2026
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Victoria Gray's Miracle: First Person Cured of Sickle Cell Disease with CRISPR
After 34 years of excruciating pain crises, Victoria Gray became the first American cured of sickle cell disease using CRISPR gene therapy. Four …
February 8, 2026
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UK First: Manchester Hospital Delivers Groundbreaking CAR-T Cell Therapy for Aggressive Blood Cancer
Manchester Royal Infirmary became the first NHS hospital to deliver a revolutionary new CAR-T cell therapy for an aggressive blood cancer, offeri…
February 9, 2026
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AI System Detects Pancreatic Cancer 5 Years Before Symptoms Appear
A new AI diagnostic tool can identify pancreatic cancer from routine blood tests up to five years before patients would normally show symptoms, p…
February 5, 2026
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New Malaria Vaccine Shows 95% Efficacy in Largest-Ever Trial
A next-generation malaria vaccine has achieved 95% efficacy in a trial of 100,000 children across Sub-Saharan Africa, bringing the dream of malar…
February 1, 2026
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Ten Cancer Breakthroughs Giving Us Hope in 2026
From personalized cancer vaccines to protein degraders and radioligand therapy, Dana-Farber researchers are pioneering treatments that are transf…
February 10, 2026
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From 10% to 47%: Texas City's Cardiac Survival Rates Surge After Revolutionary AED Program
McKinney, Texas went from a 10% cardiac arrest survival rate to 47% in just two years by equipping every police vehicle with AEDs and training ci…
February 21, 2026
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Stanford's Universal Nasal Spray Vaccine Protects Against COVID, Flu, and Pneumonia in One Shot
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a nasal spray vaccine that teaches the lungs to fight virtually any respiratory threat — from corona…
February 26, 2026
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NIH Trial Reduces New HIV Infections by 70% in Rural Kenya and Uganda
A community-based approach linking HIV diagnosis directly to treatment and prevention slashed new infections by 70% across rural populations in E…
February 26, 2026
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Mom Cured of Sickle Cell Disease With Groundbreaking Half-Match Bone Marrow Transplant
Tatyana Thompson, 32, who suffered excruciating pain crises throughout her life and during pregnancy, is now completely cured of sickle cell anem…
February 26, 2026
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Libya Defeats Trachoma — Eliminating the World's Leading Cause of Infectious Blindness
Despite years of political instability, Libya has become the 28th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem, protecting future gen…
February 27, 2026
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A 19-Year-Old Just Became the First Person on Earth Cured by 'Prime Editing' Gene Technology
Ty Sperle of Kelowna, BC, spent his childhood fighting a rare immune disease that could have killed him at any time. A groundbreaking new gene-ed…
March 2, 2026
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Scientists Are Engineering Immune 'Bodyguards' to Finally Cure Type 1 Diabetes
A bold new approach at the Medical University of South Carolina combines stem cells and engineered immune cells to restore insulin production — w…
March 3, 2026
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Stanford Scientists Cured Type 1 Diabetes in Mice — No Insulin, No Immune Suppression, No Side Effects
In a landmark study, Stanford researchers gave diabetic mice a dual transplant of islet cells and blood stem cells — and the results blew them aw…
March 3, 2026
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Martha's Rule Has Received 10,000 Calls in 16 Months — And Changed Care for Thousands of NHS Patients
The NHS scheme that lets worried families request an urgent review of a patient's care has triggered 446 potentially life-saving interventions in…
March 9, 2026
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This Prostate Cancer Drug Had 'Unprecedented' Results — 14 Tumours in One Patient Vanished Completely
A new immunotherapy drug, VIR-5500, has produced 'stunning' early results in men with advanced prostate cancer — a disease previously considered …
March 20, 2026 · prostate cancer · immunotherapy
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Surgeons Repaired Spina Bifida Before Birth — and Added Stem Cells. All Six Babies Had Brain Abnormalities Reversed.
In the world's first in-utero stem cell therapy for spina bifida, surgeons applied a stem-cell-coated patch directly onto fetuses' exposed spinal…
March 20, 2026 · spina bifida · stem cellsFEEL BETTER DAILY
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