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Stem Cell Transplant Cures Fifth HIV Case, Research Claims

A fifth person has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with resistance to the disease. The patient, a 53-year-old man in Düsseldorf, Germany, received leukemia treatment involving a blood stem cell transplant that...

English-Greek Man Needs Diaspora’s Help to Fight Leukemia

Alex Nicholson, a 24-year-old man of Greek and English heritage, needs help now to help fight the leukemia that is ravaging his body. Suffering from leukemia, a cancer of the blood, he has now exhausted every usual treatment. His only...

Greek Scientists Discover Compound Which Could Treat Leukemia

Greek researchers at the U.K.'s Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that a component in eye drops has also shown promise for the treatment of an aggressive form of blood cancer. Scientists have found that the compound, which targets an essential cancer...

Competition Spotlights Olive Oil Health Benefits and Scientific Studies

The 2018 edition of the Olympia Health & Nutrition Awards in Athens evaluated more samples than any other olive oil competition in the world: an amazing 2500 oils. This contest was even more remarkable in another way. While others...

Greek Doctors Make Breakthrough Discovery in Treating Leukemia

Greek doctors leading a team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK, outside Cambridge, have made an incredible breakthrough discovery in the fight against acute meloid leukemia (AML). Dr. Konstantinos Tzelepis and Dr. George Vassiliou -- the...

Battling Leukemia: Common Ethnic Heritage Saves Lives

How many people can claim they have given life to another human being? Very few. One of them is SF. SF recently gave the gift of life to a leukemia patient, simply by donating cells from his blood. A year...

Astarte Band Member Maria Kolokouri Battling Leukemia

Maria Kolokouri, also known as Tristessa, the bassist/keyboardist from the black metal band Astarte, is battling leukemia. The band, originally from Athens, Greece, announced in October 2013 that they were getting to work on a new album. Now, that has...