from news on the fight against cancer and leukemia to the reduction of the ozone hole and smokers

To end 2025 on a high note and not always think negatively, “The Bmj” (the British Medical Journal) collected ten good news in the medical-scientific field: from the end of the epidemic Ebola in Congoup to artificial intelligence that helps doctors recognize a stroke, and even the promises of a new T-cell gene therapy against leukemia.

Fight against diseases

At the top of the list, good news for the fight against leukemia: «T cell therapy shows promise in tackling leukemia», writes the British Medical Journal. A new treatment he uses genetically modified immune cellsdeveloped by scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London, has produced promising results in children and adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Data from the first 11 patients treated with the therapy were published in the “New England Journal of Medicine“, and 9 achieved deep remissions that allowed them to proceed with a stem cell transplant. The first girl treated, Alyssa Tapley, has been disease-free for 3 years and now plans to become a cancer scientist.

Immediately after there is the end of the new Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On December 1, the epidemic was declared to have stopped in the province of Kasaï, after no new cases had been reported in the previous 42 days. During the epidemic (the sixteenth in the DRC since the disease was identified in 1976), 64 infections and 45 deaths were recorded. “Controlling and ending this Ebola epidemic in 3 months is an extraordinary achievement,” said Mohamed Janabi, WHO Regional Director for Africa. “National authorities, health workers, partners and communities acted with speed and unity in one of the most difficult to reach locations in the country.”