Combining the treatment for the most deadly form of skin cancer with a common anti-rheumatic drug could provide more effective results, new research has shown. The findings showed that using "leflunomide" -- an immunosuppressive drug approved for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis -- in combination with another melanoma drug, selumetinib almost compl...
In a first, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel gene therapy to treat children and adult patients with an inherited form of vision loss that may result in blindness. The new gene therapy titled "Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec-rzyl)" -- a treatment for retinal dystrophy caused by a specific genetic mutation -- is th...
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered AIIMS to form a medical board to decide if a 15-year-old girl, who is over 26 weeks pregnant, could terminate her pregnancy. A division bench of Justice S. Murlidhar and Justice I.S. Mehta directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to submit its report by Friday. The court passed the or...
A US woman has successfully delivered a baby with a 25-year-old frozen embryo -- the longest known frozen human embryo. Frozen as embryo on October 14, 1992, Emma Wren was born to Tina Gibson on November 25, 2017, weighing 6 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. "Do you realise I'm only 25? This embryo and I could have been best fri...
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