The World Health Organization (WHO) has made safe, effective multidrug therapies (MDT) to cure leprosy available free of charge worldwide, and has been largely eliminated in the world. Largely, but not completely.
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Tags: Cure, rare diseases
Last week, we did a post on curing cancer at the gene-level. But what about using genes to diagnose cancer? A feature story in the MIT Technology Review looks at research happening at Johns Hopkins University on that very possibility.
Tags: cancer, Genomics, 5AM, diagnostics, Cure
Over the past year, The Atlantic magazine has published several articles on curing cancer. Overall, the tone in each article is hopeful, but balanced.
Tags: cancer, personalized medicine, diagnostics, Cure