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Sickle cell gene therapies offer new hope, but access remains a major challenge

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This microscope photo provided on Oct. 25, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows crescent-shaped red blood cells from a sickle cell disease patient in 1972. 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…

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Trump set to talk to Russia’s Putin ‘very soon’ about plague-related death in Siberia

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US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. Trump said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a suspected plague case, amid growing global health concerns over the incident….

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A rare disease is taking his vision. A gene therapy could help — if he can get it

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Judy and Courtney Stecker with their sons, Read (left) and Wheeler (right). Judy and Courtney Stecker CNBC Cures is proudly underwritten by Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, whose support enables our journalism to elevate stories that advance research, innovation and patient care in rare diseases. If any parents should be able to help their sick child,…

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FDA approves daily HIV pill from Gilead designed to simplify treatment for some patients

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The Food and Drug Administration approved a once-daily HIV pill from Gilead that could help simplify care for some patients, the company announced Thursday.  The drug, marketed as Bixlenvo, is aimed at patients whose virus is already under control but who remain on complicated treatment regimens. It could also appeal to those who simply want…

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Novo Nordisk shares dive after heart medicine fails trial, dealing another blow to its pipeline

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Shares of Novo Nordisk fell as much as 10% on Friday after the drugmaker said a late-stage heart drug trial failed to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events, or MACE, compared to a placebo. While the experimental medicine, ziltivekimab, did show some biological effect, it didn’t translate into a statistically meaningful reduction in MACE, defined as…

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Medicine Side Effects: Common medicines and their side effects | – Times of India

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Many commonly used over-the-counter medications (OTC) are used by people to treat regular ailments like pain relief, cold, and acidity. All medicines can cause side-effects and the labels on their packaging come with fair warning on the same.A side-effect is an unwanted symptom that can happen after taking certain medication. All medicines can cause side-effects…

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