Hopeful week: breakthrough fetal therapy, cancer immunotherapy, and Amazon river victories
TL;DR
A Positive News roundup highlights breakthroughs across medicine and conservation this week: a fetal stem-cell therapy for spina bifida shows mobility and quality-of-life gains, a new immunotherapy for advanced prostate cancer yields tumor shrinkage in early trials, Chile is verified leprosy-free, Indigenous river defenders win against Amazon river privatization plans on the Tapajós, and Ukraine’s Danube Delta restoration boosts Lake Kartal’s ecosystem.
Topics:healthworld#fetal-stem-cell-therapy#indigenous-river-defenders#leprosy-elimination#prostate-cancer-immunotherapy#spina-bifida#world
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- 'Miracle' boy expected to be paralysed due to spina bifida able to walk after ground-breaking surgery in the womb Sky News
- From Prevention to Prenatal Surgery: Medical Breakthroughs Are Changing the Trajectory of Spina Bifida National Right to Life
- In-Utero Stem Cell Therapy for Myelomeningocele Shows Early Safety and Feasibility: The Lancet Medical Dialogues
- Hope for a bright future for treating spina bifida just over the horizon Irish Medical Times
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