A woman is cured of HIV using a novel treatment
A woman is cured of HIV using a novel treatment
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A woman is cured of HIV using a novel treatment
Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant.
She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.
A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
Asthma. Unhealthy gut bacteria. The presence of autoantibodies, usually associated with autoimmune conditions. These are among the risk factors identified in new studies as potentially making someone at greater risk of developing long COVID, a condition in which wide-ranging symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog and racing heart rate persist months after an initial COVID-19 infection.