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Blind? A revolutionary solution to recover sight!
Who would have thought, only a few years ago. that it would be possible to give back sight to people who have become blind? For

Uncomfortable with a gastroscopy examination? Try the transnasal gastroscopy!
Gastroscopy is an excellent technique for investigation of upper gastrointestinal pathology. It is the procedure to investigate many common digestive symptoms such as abdominal pain, heartburn,

Cancer cells can be reprogrammed to become healthy again
Swiss and American researchers have found a way to reprogram cancer cells so they can become healthy again. This discovery was published in Nature Cell

Another step towards understanding cancer
A team based in Bern emphasize the importance of aggressive cells’ development in healthy tissues, opening the way for potential new treatments. Researchers supported by the Swiss

Psoriasis treatment
Psoriasis is a chronic, non-contagious autoimmune disease that affects the skin and joints. It commonly causes red, scaly patches to appear on the skin. The

Stem cells and healing
Stem cells represent the new frontier of medicine and the concrete hope of curing diseases that seemed incurable until yesterday. It is common knowledge that

Fatty liver and liver detoxification
The liver is the second largest organ in the body. The liver’s function is to process everything we eat or drink and filter any harmful

Personalizing cancer treatment with genetic fingerprint
Not all cancers are equally lethal: cancer in your prostate means a longer survival rate than a malignancy in your brain, for example. But even

Pregnancy and Rhesus factor
Rhesus factor is a substance found in people’s blood. Everybody’s blood is either rhesus positive or rhesus negative. On its own the rhesus factor does

HYPERTONY
Blood pressure (BP)is a very important indicator of a person’s health. Blood pressure shows the strength of the blood pressure in the arteries and blood

Oxidative stress & Nutrition
Our bodies are made up of 100 trillion cells that perform billions of reactions per second each and every day. Oxidation is a normal process by which