We could start with the NEET mess again, and there is indeed much to report since our last health newsletter. A collaborative survey 1,482 TB patients across four States conducted by the George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, along with the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K., highlighted the severe …
A UK toddler's hearing was restored after undergoing the world's first-ever pioneering gene therapy trial. According to reports by The Guardian, the toddler named Opal Sandy, from Oxfordshire, was born completely deaf due to auditory neuropathy, a rare genetic condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain due to a gene defect. The CHORD Gene …
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 SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A breakthrough gene therapy treatment in China has restored hearing in …
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 SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Chinese scientists have claimed some children in the country who were …
