A new study confirms that a “trial effect”—in which patients improve simply as a result of taking part in a drug study—once existed among HIV trial participants.
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A new strain of gonorrhea is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.
The recipient of the first synthetic organ transplant—a synthetic trachea seeded with the patient’s own stem cells—is sent home from the hospital.
South Korea approves the first stem-cell medication for clinical use.
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