A panel of US health experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against the use of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a "groundbreaking" gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston and the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University.
A world-first Australian study finds personalised cancer treatments using genome sequencing are achieving remission in cases considered unlikely to be cured.
Ground-breaking gene therapy, given as an infusion into the ear, works by replacing faulty DNA which causes a type of inherited deafness known as DFNB9.