Def Leppard guitarist and background vocalist Vivian Campbell revealed he is in remission from Hodgkin lymphoma after being diagnosed over a decade ago, saying that he owes his donor a beer “or two or three.” “I did a PET scan in the middle of April, and I’m 100% clean, completely in remission for the first … Read more
Selma Blair has some good news about her battle with multiple sclerosis. The “Legally Blonde” actress, 55, announced this week that she is “truly in remission” from the debilitating disease that she was first diagnosed with back in 2018. “I am doing amazingly well,” Blair told People during The Daily Front Row’s 9th Annual Fashion Los … Read more
Feeling downward, dog? Hot yoga could fix that. For people with moderate to severe depression, just one session of hot yoga per week was associated with a “significantly greater” reduction in symptoms compared to no treatment at all, according to a clinical trial. The Harvard Medical School findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, … Read more
A European man has reportedly been in remission from HIV for two years, following a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Confirmation would make him the sixth person in history to become HIV-free. Unlike the other five people who have achieved HIV remission through stem cell transplants, the donor for this unidentified patient did … Read more
“Jurassic Park” star Sam Neill assured fans that he’s “fine” after mounting concerns over his health since revealing he was being treated for cancer. Neill revealed his battle with stage 3 blood cancer in his upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?” The 75-year-old said he was soon diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, undergoing chemotherapy … Read more
Five seriously ill lupus patients have seen their disease driven into remission after a single infusion of modified immune cells, in a small trial that borrows from cancer therapy to harness patients’ own cells to treat the autoimmune condition. Scientists are calling the results “spectacular” and “incredibly exciting”, saying the findings may herald a new … Read more
Five patients with hard-to-treat lupus entered remission after scientists tweaked their immune cells using a technique normally used to treat cancer. After the one-time therapy, all five patients with the autoimmune disease stopped their standard treatments and haven’t had a relapse. This treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, needs to be tested … Read more
Joint pain is a common lupus symptom, but the chronic condition can affect nearly every organ in the body. Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Scientists in Germany may have demonstrated a new way to treat and possibly even cure the chronic condition lupus. In a study out Thursday, the team describes how patients given a form of … Read more