- The first double arm transplant has been performed in a 16-hour surgery by a team of 30 surgeons in a Munich hospital.

A 54-year old man who lost both arms in a farming accident six years ago was given the arms of a 19-year-old who is thought to have died in a car crash

Outside medical experts for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday recommended approval of Roche Holding AG's drug Actemra to treat moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.

The drug is more effective at reducing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis than existing biologic agents, which are dominated by a type of drug known as anti-TNFs. The new drug will target the drug for patients who failed anti-TNFs, such as Johnson & Johnson's drug Remicade and Abbott Laboratories' Humira, DowJones reported

Allergies like dermatitis, hay fever and asthma have been linked by German scientists to a gene found in 8 percent of Europeans.

The study, released Wednesday, said the lack of the protein filaggrin is the reason behind skin allergies. It was based on observations by the Munich Helmholtz Center and the Technical University of Munich of 3,000 Munich school children

Parents who care for mentally-challenged children are prone to develop weak immune systems due to stress, new research suggests. The study concluded that such parents should be offered a better support system.

Researchers at Birmingham University analyzed 60 parents who received the pneumococcal vaccine as part of the study. Half of them had children with developmental disabilities

Researchers have developed a tobacco plant-based vaccine for patients with a chronic form of lymphoma, a specific type of cancer.

According to the first human study of the approach, researchers found that the vaccine could trigger an immune response in the body, which could lead to personalized vaccines that may kick start the patients' immune systems to attack the cancer