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The American Red Cross said it is in need of Black blood donors to help patients with sickle cell disease. The Red Cross said sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, mostly affecting patients of African descent. The disease is a group of conditions in which red blood […]
Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, […]
A patient wears a sickle cell warrior bracelet in 2019. File photo by Stacey Wescott/ Chicago Tribune/ Tribune News Service via Getty Images Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the United States. The […]
Dr. Gladwin to Present This Week at Symposium in Brazil, One of 22 Clinical Trial Locations RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD will join prominent scientists and government health officials this week at a Symposium in Rio De Janeiro . . .
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a cutting-edge therapy called exa-cel that could potentially cure people of sickle cell disease, a painful and deadly disease with no universally successful treatment. “If approved, exa-cel, made by Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Swiss company CRISPR Therapeutics, would be the first FDA-approved treatment that uses genetic […]
CNN — Dima Hendricks said as a Black woman with a chronic illness she never thought she would be able to fulfill her dream of competing in national beauty pageants. “I competed on a state level for over 25 years. I was able to win local and state titles, but when it was time . […]
Dr. Laventrice Ridgeway remembers everything up until that split-second frightening moment. A young boy at the time, he rushed outside to play football with his friends, bounding down the front stairs. Before the last step, he hit the ground. Then, everything went dark. According to his grandmother, he lay unconscious for days in the hospital […]
First patient treated in the U.S. with Aliya PEF delivered via an endobronchial approach with robotic-assisted navigation REDWOOD CITY, Calif. , Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the treatment of the first patient in the AFFINITY clinical study. This prospective trial is intended to demonstrate the safety and technical success of the […]
The EMILY 3000 fuel cell is ‘virtually signature-free’, has ‘silent and emission-free operation, with no exhaust gases,’ and can simplify logistics and costs ‘for the increasingly power-hungry payloads US Marines deploy for operations,’ Black Knight, which is distributing the system in the US, explained to Shephard at the Modern Day Marine event. German-based SFC Energy produces […]
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