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And the teenage patient is in remission. 0ur medical editor, fergus walsh, reports on a remarkable world first. this ones hard. the whole experience has brought me so much closer to my family. alyssa is back at home in leicester thanks to a pioneering new cancer therapy. all other treatment options for her leukaemia had failed. breathe in and breathe out. . thank you, thats a good one. so in may, she received a world—first therapy. i know that ive helped other children as well, that other chil...

Waiting lists back to work, someone, that would be a big sum of money and the government has set a public finance objective, it is onlyjust said to me that by £10 billion, small in the context of the wider economy. and so that would probably mean that any higher pay awards would be accompanied by high taxes, probably looking, for the average household, something in the region of between five and... 500— £600 a year. these are relatively large sums at a time when families are under a squeeze....

>> well, i think the angle here, theres really two aspects to it for our particular patient as you noted identified as being mixed race. the cells that are resistant to hiv, natural genetic variation that occurs in probably less than 1% of people, and primarily people of northern european ancestry, when someone needs a transplant like this, they need to be matched with the donor cells, and because of that, it could be, you know, much more difficult for somebody who is not of european ancestry. b...

Bottom line, there are still many unanswered questions. so a second study is now underway. this time with more than 100 children. its a randomized double blind placebo controlled trial. thats the gold standard in researching potential new treatments. >> that will allow us to have much more confidence in saying that the treatment is actually working. >> in addition in this second study, children are receiving either their own cells or if they dont have their own cells theyre receiving donor cells...

Bottom line, there are still many unanswered questions. so a second study is now underway. this time with more than 100 children. its a randomized double blind placebo controlled trial. thats the gold standard in researching potential new treatments. >> that will allow us to have much more confidence in saying that the treatment is actually working. >> in addition in this second study, children are receiving either their own cells or if they dont have their own cells theyre receiving donor cells...

Interesting, you know, development thats come out. basically, he -- this physician had two hiv-positive patients who were hiv positive for years. they developed -- and they were doing quite well on their antiretroviral medicines. they each developed hodge kins lymphoma. they were treated and failed conventional medicine which means they had chemotherapy, they then underwent more as well as a bone marrow transplant. and what they found a few years later, this researcher said i want you to stop yo...

Immune system is so low. >> listen to this. even though her sisters a perfect match, robins system will still try to attack these donor cells. doctors will work to prevent any symptoms of graft versus host disease when there is rejection of bone marrow transplant. so even though its a perfect match, its still a battle to make sure its not rejected. >> its still unclear how long she will be out. its determined by how her body responds to the bone marrow transplant. the markers typically come at 3...