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A treatment for sickle cell disease was announced earlier this year, and there may be a cure on the horizon. Kendric is receiving treatment at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and by the end of the next year, he might become the first sickle cell patient to be healed …

A mother has gone on Facebook to narrate how pregnancy cured her of an enlarged heart.   Sylvia Amaka Ogbaegbe wrote: “Pregnancy CAN cure you of an ailment.   “When I had one of the necessary tests required  to travel, they found out I had an enlarged heart.   “Of …

A 13-year-old boy from Belgium has become the first in the world to be cured of a deadly brain cancer.     Lucas Jemeljanova at the age of 6 was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a very rare and highly aggressive brain tumor that kills 98 percent of sufferers within …

After getting HIV-resistant stem cells through a bone marrow transplant meant to treat leukaemia, an HIV-positive man in Germany was proclaimed to be HIV-free. The University Hospital Düsseldorf team eliminated the patient’s malignant cells and replaced them with donor cells lacking CCR5. CCR5 is the receptor that HIV particles use …