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2 weeks agoThe Biggest Hope for Curing Autoimmune Disease
Experimental CAR-T cell treatment shows promise for severe autoimmune diseases, with one patient returning to a normal life after years of unsuccessful treatments.
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2 months agoSepsis warning after woman's quadruple amputation
After 32 weeks in hospital, several cardiac arrests and a quadruple amputation, sepsis survivor Manjit Sangha has finally returned home. Despite medics thinking the 56-year-old would almost certainly die, she left Ward 9 at Moseley Hall in Birmingham on Wednesday, receiving a hero's welcome from her family in Penn, on the Wolverhampton/Staffordshire border. Doctors believe her sepsis might have been caused by something as innocent as a lick from her dog on a small cut or scratch.
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