A 16-year-old girl has been discharged from a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, after successfully undergoing groundbreaking gene therapy treatment for thalassemia, a hereditary blood disorder.The patient, identified by the pseudonym Xiao Lin, had been receiving revolutionary RM001 cell treatment at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University since June.
Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, signed an agreement and was granted a license to build an international general practitioner medical training base in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Wednesday.
The Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center at the Sun Yat-sen University has achieved a milestone in the field of ophthalmic surgery by completing the world's first remote, micron-level surgery on rabbits using an independently developed 5G robot.The surgeries took place on June 23 on rabbits at the center in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, with the surgical team operating the robot from the Hai...
On the afternoon of July 7 (local time), the China-Dominica Cardiovascular Imaging Center and Telemedicine Center were launched at the Dominica-China Friendship Hospital.
Emerging evidence has shown that reducing modifiable risk factors may help to prevent and control dementia. Earlier menopause, particularly premature menopause, might be associated with increased risks of cardiovascular diseases, sleep disorders, psychiatric diseases, and other sequelae. It is uncertain whether earlier age at menopause is associated with incident dementia. In addition, the unde...
A delegation from the University of Birmingham (UoB) visited the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU) in Guangzhou's Nansha on June 20. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed to further cooperation on healthy aging research.