List of medical breakthroughs in 2017

The old year is about to go to the new year, invite you to review the most mentioned events in the past year about Medicine.

Scientists have found a single cell in the human body that is able to identify hepatitis C, which may be an extremely important factor in the development of a vaccine or remedy to cure hepatitis C. Last August, FDA approved a new drug to treat hepatitis C called 'Mavyret' (generic name: glecaprevir and pibrentasvir) for an 8-week course for patients with or without cirrhosis or diseases related to the liver. It is well known to reduce the time of 1 treatment course, no one wants to have long treatment.

Cancer

Last year, UK researchers discovered that the combination of two drugs used to treat cancer was Herceptin (generic name: trastuzumab) and Tyverb (generic name: lapatinib), which would reduce tumor size very much. fast. By this year the FDA has also granted permission for Nerlynx (generic name: neratinib) to be used for patients who are diagnosed early after applying the treatment regimen with the drug component Herceptin. Applying new drugs with well-used drugs provides an opportunity for patients to prevent malignant tumors from spreading to other organs in the body and also hopefully tumors will no longer turn. come back again.

There is also good news about the treatment of CAR T-Cell therapy in the treatment of white blood disease in the United States by directing the body's immune system to directly attack cancer cells and this therapy is also FDA approved for wider use.

Although knowing that there is still a long way to go is the cure for cancer completely, but having new good news is always a good thing for us to have more hope.

Sleeplessness

In the modern world almost every country suffers from sleep problems. The consequences of sleep deprivation can be listed through overeating, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and poor concentration of work. Our sleep cycle is associated with the biological clock, or the circadian rhythm, and scientists have discovered the gene that regulates the circadian rhythm every day, not only that, but they also find muscle. The activity of this gene. With this study, three scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Hopefully it will help provide ways to handle sleep-related problems in a better way. .

Gene's

In recent years in Vietnam, people have started to pay attention to autism in children and there are many approaches to help treat children. Recently, scientists from the University of Southern California have identified autism-related mutations in a single gene known as TRIO . And like Bruce Herring and David Dornsife of the paper published in Nature Communications, their findings are likely to be key for other scientists to develop more effective ways of treating autism disorder

In order to find a source of donated organs, it is more difficult to preserve well to move. However, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a process that increases the likelihood of success to a higher level of 'reheating' the heart valves and blood vessels of large animals after being preserved. in deep cold temperatures. This will be a big step in saving millions of lives by building and preserving more easily and securely than organs donated by organ banks.

In addition, there have been researches on, and the rate is very positive, in the near future sometimes we will 'borrow' organs from other animals for human transplantation if allowed.

It could be said that this is a PR trick, or a super breakthrough, or a fraud, maybe even Frankeinstein's crazy fan type wants to 'succeed'. And based on what Dr. Canavero and the Chinese team announced, they separated the spinal cord of 15 mice and then tried to reconnect 9 of the 15 spinal cord. The initial results showed that a rat lived 30 days after surgery. Currently Dr. Canavero is still very vocal about whether he has enough funding to conduct surgery on humans or not (although there is a Russian man willing to donate himself for science). Let's just wait and see.