Por: The New York Times Health November 17, 2023
Regulators in Britain on Thursday the first treatment derived from CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing method. Called Casgevy, the treatment is intended to cure sickle-cell disease and a related condition, beta thalassemia.The manufacturers, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, based in Boston, and CRISPR Therapeutics, based in Switzerland, say about 2,000 patients in Britain with sickle-cell disease or beta thalassemia are expected to be eligible for its... + full article
WPLG Local 10 USA Politics November 16, 2023
LONDON – Britain's medicines regulator has authorized the world's first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K.In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and... + más
Britain becomes 1st country to approve gene-therapy treatment for sickle cell disease | Los Angeles Times
Study: Too few kids with sickle cell get stroke screen, care | Associated Press
Los Angeles Times USA Science November 16, 2023
Britain's medicines regulator has authorized the world's first gene-therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare... + más
FDA considers 1st CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell disease | ABC7
ABC7 USA Health November 01, 2023
anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at age three. Because of it, she's had heart problems, had her hips replaced, and experienced serious pain all her... + más
Vor Biopharma says first patient given its gene editing therapy for leukemia is in remission | The Boston Globe
CBS News USA Politics November 01, 2023
A panel of the Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers voiced few concerns Tuesday during a daylong wrestling with any potential risks posed by a new therapy that could cure sickle cell disease using a called .If approved by the FDA, the infusion called exa-cel,... + más
The Boston Globe USA Business June 11, 2023
It’s one of the great paradoxes of medicine.Sickle cell disease was the first human disorder understood on a molecular level, its underpinnings explained in a landmark 1949 paper by a future two-time Nobel laureate.Yet the inherited blood disease ― which causes unpredictable... + más
NFL Star and Wife Champion Sickle Cell Disease Awareness in the Black Community | The Root
The Root USA Health March 02, 2023
NFL running back Tevin Coleman and his wife Akilah are proud parents of 5-year-old twins, Nazaneen and Nezerah. Shortly after the twins’ birth, their daughter, Nazaneen, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease (SCD), a red blood cell disorder that can prevent the body’s... + más
Sickle Cell Cure Brings Mix of Anxiety and Hope | The New York Times
Associated Press USA Science September 21, 2022
FILE - This 2009 colorized microscope image made available by the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a sickle cell, left, and normal red blood cells of a patient with sickle cell anemia. A study of U.S. children with sickle... + más
Study: Too few kids with sickle cell get stroke screen, care | ABC News
Playing with your emotions? A Boston video game startup aims to help kids regulate their behavior. | The Boston Globe
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