Axios on MSN9 天
New sickle cell treatment cures disease at lower cost than gene therapies
A new type of bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease with only half of the donor's cell proteins matching, ...
News Medical on MSN4 天
Pioneering the world’s first CRISPR medicine for sickle cell disease
When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...
NICE approval of Casgevy: a new era for sickle cell disease treatments in the UK
The sickle cell treatments available before Casgevy focused on symptom management such as reducing the frequency of ...
NBC Los Angeles17 天
High-cost sickle cell gene therapies push insurers and Medicaid programs to find new ...
Deshawn "DJ" Chow is one of just over 100 sickle cell patients who have undergone treatment with new gene therapies. CVS Health CEO David Joyner said private insurers and employer-sponsored health ...