Category: Chronic Disease
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease often isn’t a cure, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Gene therapy for sickle cell disease has a breathtaking price tag of 2-3 million dollars per person, and for some people who receive it, is doesn’t actually cure the condition. That’s according to Richard Brodsky, a sickle cell expert at …
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A new technique is better than gene therapy for curing sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
A new technique cures most people with sickle cell disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Bone marrow transplants used to be limited to just those people with sickle cell disease who could receive bone marrow from a matched donor. Rick Jones, an expert in blood disorders and cancers at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues have just …
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What’s the best way to cure sickle cell disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Sickle cell disease is a genetic abnormality that causes red blood cells to sickle instead of being round, and a host of problems result, including excruciatingly painful sickle cell crises. Rick Jones, an expert in blood disorders and cancer at …
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There are things you can do to help protect your respiratory health even with dryer air and poor air quality, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Breathing through your mouth makes health issues from dryer air even worse, says David Edwards, a respiratory health expert at Johns Hopkins. His recent study shows the deleterious impact of dry air on our respiratory system but says there are …
How is poor air quality related to dry air and respiratory health? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Very tiny particles known as PM2.5 are a part of pollutants in the air, and have been shown to negatively affect health. Ditto for warming temperatures, which dry out our respiratory system, research by David Edwards, a respiratory health expert …