Therapy

After struggling with a persistent bacterial blood infection that did not respond to traditional medications, the patient agreed to try phage therapy.  In an astonishingly short period of just 24 hours after receiving phage therapy, the…

On Thursday, the US gave preliminary clearance to the first gene therapy for a fatal form of muscular dystrophy despite reservations from some government scientists about the treatment's potential to benefit boys with the genetic condition.…

A pioneering NHS trial to determine if proton beam therapy can assist some breast cancer patients has begun. The first-of-its-kind trial will compare the high-tech treatment to conventional radiation for people with a higher risk of…