Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A biology teacher has been given a “gamechanger” therapy to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), becoming the first patient in the UKContinue Reading
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Chizhevskaya Ekaterina/Shutterstock When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person “get younger” and even live to 150. The remark was widely dismissed as science fiction. Yet it coincided with genuine scientific progress. Just daysContinue Reading
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Sitophotostock/Shutterstock Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy cells alongside cancerous ones, leaving patients exhausted and vulnerable to long-term side effects.Continue Reading
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