Drug development for sickle-cell disease, largely neglected for decades, is becoming a crowded field: two papers published on Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine give promising results from a study of experimental therapies, including Crisper gene editing for the disease. In addition, Beam Therapeutics Inc. The American Society …
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Tedros Adhanam, Director General of the World Health Organization, is speaking at a daily briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. Chen Jnxia | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images World Health Organization officials warned on Friday that, although rare, recent data suggests that people who were once infected with the coronavirus may …
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President-elect Joe Biden’s cowardly advisory board member Dr. Celine Gounder told CNBC that President Donald Trump’s special adviser on the coronavirus epidemic, Dr. She is relieved to hear that Scott Atlas has officially resigned from his post. “I am relieved that in the future those who are qualified, infectious disease …
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A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) inserts a Covid-19 test tube into a compartment at a drive-thru test site at Alemani Farmers Market in San Francisco, California, USA, on Thursday, November 19, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The FDA on Wednesday authorized one of …
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A laboratory technician shows the drug “Remdesivir” to treat coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Amr Abdullah Dalash | Reuters A World Health Organization panel on Thursday used Gilad Sciences’ antiviral drug rimadesivir to treat hospitalized patients in Covid-1 with it, saying there was currently no evidence that it survives or shortens recovery …
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