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Potential cure for sickle cell disease raises few concerns for FDA panel
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has hailed its treatment as "transformative" for patients with sickle cell disease. The FDA will decide on approval soon.
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Are 'healthy' candles actually a better Halloween option?
What to consider when reaching for candy alternatives.
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says
The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.
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Are people born with good balance? A physical therapist explains the systems that help keep you on your toes
People learn balance as they grow – and can usually improve their balance with practice. uzhursky/iStock via Getty Images Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Are people born with good balance? – Sebastian L., age 15, Skanderborg, Denmark No one is born with the ability to ride a skateboard, surf or even stand on their tiptoes. Unlike other mammals, human beings have no balance at b
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Coconut Milk: Comparing Benefits vs. Fat Content
Coconut milk is made from the white flesh, or coconut meat, inside the coconut and water. It’s different from coconut cream, which is made with less water and has a thicker, creamier texture, and coconut water, which is the clear liquid found inside the coconut. Coconut milk is packaged in a can or carton.
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FDA moves closer to sickle cell cure that uses gene editing
The FDA is one step closer to approving a cure for sickle cell disease that uses CRISPR gene editing. It would be the first approve drug to use gene editing.
4 min read - HealthReuters
FDA panel says Vertex/CRISPR to assess safety risks of gene therapy in follow-up study
If the therapy is approved, Vertex has proposed a 15-year follow up of patients to evaluate the safety outcomes of the therapy. A vaso-occlusive crisis occurs when sickled red blood cells block blood flow to the point that tissues become deprived of oxygen and causes pain. The panel members said the 15-year follow up will help generate data from real-time monitoring of the therapy, which uses the new gene editing CRISPR technology.
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