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Local Pediatric Oncologist hopeful new gene therapy will save lives
WTVC
On Thursday, Dr. McManus described the treatment as the “first gene therapy treatment for any type of cancer in the pediatric world or adult world.” In layman’s terms, Dr. McManus said the treatment allows doctors to remove a patients “T-cells, which …

Modern Health & Wellness of Lima institutes regenerative stem cell therapy
Lima Ohio
Dr. Patrick Gorman, owner of Modern Health & Wellness in Lima, speaks to attendees at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the center’s newly implemented regenerative stem cell therapy on Thursday. John Bush | The Lima News. LIMA — A chiropractic …

Man describes new FDA-approved gene therapy for leukemia that changed his life
fox4kc.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lucas Novick, 27, has been in a battle with leukemia since his freshman year of college. “I was having headaches that were so bad that they were causing vomiting pretty regularly and I couldn`t see straight well enough that I felt …
A new leukemia treatment at Children’s Mercy saved this musician. Can others afford it?Kansas City Star

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A new leukemia treatment at Children’s Mercy saved this musician. Can others afford it?
Kansas City Star
Novick was thrown a lifeline in the form of a cutting-edge gene therapy treatment at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. The treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, involved extracting Novick’s own white blood …

A new leukemia treatment at Children’s Mercy saved this musician. Can others afford it?
Kansas City Star
Novick was thrown a lifeline in the form of a cutting-edge gene therapy treatment at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. The treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, involved extracting Novick’s own white blood …

FDA Cracking Down On Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments
The Onion (satire)
With stem cell therapy rapidly expanding in recent years, the FDA announced it’s tightening rules on clinics using unapproved or unsafe stem cell treatments. What do you think? “I can’t believe they would rob the desperately ill of the opportunity to …
FDA cracks down on stem cell clinics | WPMT FOX43FOX43.com
FDA announces action against two stem cell clinics: Is that a ‘crackdown’?HealthNewsReview.org
FDA Targets Unproven, Risky Treatment in Stem Cell Clinics …Newsmax
Florida Trend –The New Indian Express –FDA.gov
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FDA Cracking Down On Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments
The Onion (satire)
With stem cell therapy rapidly expanding in recent years, the FDA announced it’s tightening rules on clinics using unapproved or unsafe stem cell treatments. What do you think? “I can’t believe they would rob the desperately ill of the opportunity to …
FDA cracks down on stem cell clinics | WPMT FOX43FOX43.com
FDA announces action against two stem cell clinics: Is that a ‘crackdown’?HealthNewsReview.org
FDA Targets Unproven, Risky Treatment in Stem Cell Clinics …Newsmax
Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3 –Florida Trend –The New Indian Express –FDA.gov
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Leukemia-fighting gene therapy has ups (it usually works) and downs ($475K price, brutal side effects)
The Mercury News
This photo provided by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, taken in May 2017, shows Emily Whitehead five years after she became the first pediatric patient in the world to receive an experimental therapy at the hospital that has put her leukemia …
US clears breakthrough gene therapy for childhood leukemiaABC News
First Gene Therapy Treatment Approved in USSmithsonian
FDA approves a ‘historic’ new type of leukemia treatmentToday.com
FDA.gov –National Cancer Institute –Novartis
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