06Mar/13

Plymouth parents' plea for £500000 to save their three-year-old 'superhero' – This is Plymouth


This is Plymouth

Plymouth parents’ plea for £500000 to save their three-year-old ‘superhero’
This is Plymouth
He has since undergone stem cell harvesting, surgery to remove a tumour, stem cell transplant and another bout of intensive chemotherapy. Elsbeth said that since they have been in hospital they have watched three other children die from Neuroblastoma.

05Mar/13

Audacity of hope – Hindustan Times


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Audacity of hope
Hindustan Times
The only other person cured is Timothy Ray Brown, the “Berlin patient” who became Aids-free after undergoing a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. What makes the Mississippi baby’s cure more
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05Mar/13

US HIV baby 'cured' by early drug treatment – Mmegi Online


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US HIV baby ‘cured’ by early drug treatment
Mmegi Online
His infection was eradicated through an elaborate treatment for leukaemia that involved the destruction of his immune system and a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. In contrast, the case of the
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