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10/08/2025

06/08/2025

UST HOSPITAL marked a breakthrough in vocal rehabilitation with the country’s first successful implantation of a medical-grade silicone and titanium voice system, restoring speech in a patient with vocal cord paralysis.

READ: https://varsitarian.net/sci-tech/20250731/ust-hospital-pioneers-phs-first-vocal-implant-surgery-for-speech-restoration

06/08/2025

👁 Surgeons just removed a spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket, in a world first.

Here’s how this groundbreaking approach saved a young woman’s life.

In a world-first surgical breakthrough, doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center removed a spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket—a route never before used to access the spine.

The patient, 19-year-old Karla Flores, had a rare and aggressive chordoma tumor wrapped around her cervical spine and pressing on her spinal cord.

Traditional approaches posed high risks of damaging critical nerves and blood vessels. Instead, neurosurgeon Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib and his multidisciplinary team pioneered a "transorbital" method, creating a surgical corridor through the eye socket to access the spine without external scarring or injury to vital structures.

This innovative approach preserved key neurological functions and allowed complete tumor removal, followed by proton radiation and spinal fusion surgery. The transorbital technique—previously used for brain tumors—was refined through extensive cadaver-based research. It represents a major leap forward in minimally invasive neurosurgery and demonstrates the power of anatomical precision, technology, and collaboration. Flores, now 20, is cancer-free and recovering well, a testament to the team's resolve to challenge conventional limits in pursuit of the best outcomes.

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"In First-of-Its-Kind Surgery, Rare Spinal Tumor Removed Through Patient’s Eye Socket at University of Maryland Medical Center" via University of Maryland Medical Center (May 06, 2025). UMMC Media Relations

15/07/2025

Antibiotics do not treat viral infections such as colds and flu 🤧. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional before taking antibiotics.

19/06/2025

03/06/2025

The number of young Filipinos infected with human immunodeficiency virus has increased by 500%, prompting the Department of Health to request for the declaration of a national public health emergency for HIV.

Read more at the link in the comments section.

01/06/2025

✂️ CRISPR Just Snipped HIV Out Of Human Immune Cells — And It Stayed Gone!

In a stunning leap forward, scientists have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to delete HIV-1 DNA from human T-cells.

Unlike treatments that only suppress the virus, this approach completely removes HIV’s genetic code from the immune system’s core cells.

Even more impressive?

The edited cells resisted reinfection in lab tests—showing the potential for a real, permanent cure.

This could be the breakthrough that finally cracks the toughest part of the fight against HIV: eliminating the virus from the body once and for all.

29/05/2025

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14/05/2025

Babies are filled with love 💙

03/05/2025

Whether you like to

✅ run
✅ jump
✅ play sports
✅ dance

WHO recommends that children & adolescents 👦👧 do a minimum 6⃣0⃣ minutes/day of physical activity. Every move counts.

03/05/2025

❗️Maging matalino sa pagpili ng pagkakagastusan. PAGKAIN o YOSING NAKAKA-KANSER? ❗️

Imbis na bumili ka ng nakaka-kanser na yosi, ibili mo na lang ng bigas o masustansyang pagkain ang pera mo.

‘Wag sunugin ang pera sa bisyo. Lalo na kung maraming umaasa sayo.

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