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Cure for deafness now within reach
Telegraph Media Group
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/eart...
2008-08-30
Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests. By Roger Highfield.
Patients 'free from cancer' after immune-boost treatment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/14/scican...
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 7:01pm BST 14/08/2008
Cancer patients have been left free of the disease after being treated with a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells.
BBC NEWS
Vitamin C 'slows cancer growth'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/7540822.stm
An injection of a high dose of vitamin C may be able to hold back the advance of cancers, US scientists claim.
The vitamin may start a destructive chain reaction within the cancer cell, they add.
Daily pill that halts Alzheimer's is hailed as 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years'
By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 11:57 PM on 29th July 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1039677/Daily-pill-halts-Alzhe...
Alzheimer's Breakthrough: The new drug reverses symptoms in 81% of patients
Clone cell cancer 'cure' hailed
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7460743.stm
2008-06-20
Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body.
The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment.
When people say phytonutrients, what does that really mean? Well, read below about one certain phytonutrient that is showing signs of being a cancer curative agent.
Ellagic Acid
Heart cells cultured in the lab
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7361250.stm
BBC - 2008-04-24
Scientists have moved a step closer to creating functioning heart tissue for transplants in the lab.
They have grown three types of human heart cells from cultures derived from embryonic stem cells.
Patients Harmed by Lasik Surgery Alternate Between Fury, Despair at FDA Hearing
Friday , April 25, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C352587%2C00.html
AP
WASHINGTON —

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml
April 13, 2008(CBS) What if we told you that a guy with no background in science or medicine-not even a college degree-has come up with what may be one of the most promising breakthroughs in cancer research in years?

Surgeons give hope to blind with successful 'bionic eye' operations
By David Rose
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3790683.ece
Surgeons have carried out the first operations in Britain using a pioneering “bionic eye” that could in future help to restore blind people’s sight.

Cure for acne found, say scientists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/17/nhealth4...
04-19-2008
Scientists believe they have found a breakthrough treatment for acne.
They claim that the drug, SMT D002, can reduce the flow of sebum - an oily substance produced by the skin and believed to be a significant cause - by 90 per cent.

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