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One promising treatment for patients with blood cancers is stem cell transplantation. Doctors completely eliminate the patient’s immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing it with a donor’s immune system. Because the bone marrow produces blood and immune cells, completely substituting cancerous bone…

Locals who are pregnant or have a weakened immune system being particularly at risk

“Beauty is an iron mine,” once remarked the Australian mining magnate, Gina Reinhart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living organisms: from bacteria and fungi, to mammals like us.

Some 1.27 million people died in 2019 directly as a result of infection because the bacteria causing the infection were resistant to the drugs designed to kill them, according to a recent study in The Lancet; overall, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to have contributed directly or indirectly to the…

The pill is aimed at those who do not want a hangover after drinking the day before. But can these pills really prevent a hangover?

The bacterial infection is becoming increasingly common and a British mother is now bedbound because of a bite she received eight years ago

Scotland's public sector food body has emphasised the need for good hygiene and cooking practices amid concerns over a “superbug” found in some…

A new anti-hangover supplement has just gone on sale in the UK. It is marketed by Swedish firm Myrkl as “the pre-drinking pill that works”.

Tests found more than 10% of sampled products resistant to antibiotic used to treat serious illnesses in humans