Alzheimer's Transmissible Via Stem Cell Transplantation? Alzheimer's Transmissible Via Stem Cell Transplantation?
Animal research suggests that a rare, familial form of Alzheimer ' s disease can be transmitted via bone marrow transplantation, but experts urge caution in interpreting this finding.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Quebec cancer center first in Canada to use Accuray's Radixact system
Montérégie Integrated Cancer Center in Quebec, Canada, part of Charles-LeMoyne Hospital, is the first center in the country to treat cancer patients using Accuray's Radixact radiation therapy delivery system.
A second Radixact system is scheduled to be installed at the center later in 2024. The system at the Montérégie center also incorporates the Accuray exclusive ClearRT helical fan-beam kVCT imaging solution and Synchrony motion adaptation technology. Combined, this allows for clinicians to acquire diagnostic-like quality CT images along with tracking, detecting, and correcting for tumor movement in real-time, the ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Tanzania: Tanzania Allocates 4bn/ - for Treatment of Children With Sickle Cell
[Daily News] DODOMA: The Tanzanian government has allocated 4 billion shillings for the treatment of 20 children grappling with sickle cell disease through bone marrow transplant services. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 2, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Tanzania Source Type: news
13 Ways the World Got Better in 2023
As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters (many climate-change-related) in Turkey, Southeast Africa, Hawaii, Canada, and more. At the end of this long year, though, it’s worth taking a step back and considering some of the ways things improved. Here are some examples, gathered together by TIME’s climate and health journalists:
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COVID-19 death numbers plummeted…
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has b...
Source: TIME: Health - December 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
'Half-Matched' BMTs Effective in Severe Sickle Cell Disease
(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- A reduced-intensity "half-matched" bone marrow transplant (BMT) protocol demonstrated durable donor engraftment, with encouraging survival rates, in adults with severe sickle cell disease (SCD) for whom stem cell... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - December 13, 2023 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
New Sickle Cell Therapies Will Be Out of Reach Where They Are Needed Most
Nasra Gwoto, 10, and her brother, Ramadhani, 12, traveled with their mother from Tanzania to India to get a bone-marrow transplant for sickle cell disease. The procedure is risky, and their mother wishes they could have received a new gene therapy instead. There is no clear path for African…#nasragwoto #tanzania #african #lyfgenia #bluebirdbio #vertex #saudiarabia #africa #whatsapp #shanimgaraganza (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA Approves First CRISPR Treatment in U.S.
It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing that the pair earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for how it could transform the way genetic diseases are treated. Now, on Dec. 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the very first treatment in the country based on the technology.
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In the medical world, that’s lightning speed. “It’s incredible,” says Doudna, professor of chemistry a...
Source: TIME: Health - December 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
What Pigs and Squirrels Can Teach Us About Managing Pain
Over the past several decades, there have been many supporting studies of the health-promoting effects of an optimistic personality. Much research has been done on the connection between a high level of optimism and good health, described well in clinical psychologists Burel R. Goodin and Hailey W. Bulls’ 2014 research paper, appropriately titled, “Optimism and the Experience of Pain: Benefits of Seeing the Glass as Half Full.” The authors state that optimism “is linked to both enhanced physiological recovery and psychosocial adjustment to coronary artery bypass surgery, bone marrow transplant, post...
Source: TIME: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. David B. Agus Tags: Uncategorized Books freelance Source Type: news
CRISPR Therapy Gets U.K. Approval, the First in the World
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.
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In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020.
The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MARIA CHENG / AP Tags: Uncategorized Drugs wire Source Type: news
Nurse thought she had ‘marks’ on her tights - it was actually a sign of a deadly cancer
She underwent three rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat the disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Product Could Be a Big First for Genetic Diseases
Sickle cell disease is a painful, debilitating, and possibly deadly inherited disorder that currently can only be remedied with a bone marrow transplant. Now, Boston's Vertex Pharmaceuticals hopes exa-cel, its treatment developed with CRISPR Therapeutics, will soon be approved by the FDA following…#boston #crisprtherapeutics #fda #marketwatch #nationalheart #bloodinstitute #allisonking #stlouis #times #vertex (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
WATCH LIVE: Sickle cell gene therapy gets review from FDA advisory committee
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source. On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will review a gene therapy for the inherited blood disorder, which in the U.S.…#fda #crispr #nobelprize #allisonking #stlouis #africa #african #middleeastern #crisprtherapeutics #vertex (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. FDA advisers will review it next week
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source. On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will review a gene therapy for the inherited blood disorder, which in the U.S.…#fda #crispr #nobelprize #allisonking #stlouis #africa #african #middleeastern #crisprtherapeutics #vertex (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Addenbrooke's Hospital children's bone marrow transplant service opens
Will Grocott, 15, is the first to receive treatment from the service at Addenbrooke's Hospital. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
