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Immunotherapy May Lead to Cure for Type 1 Diabetes – Specialty Pharmacy Times

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2017-08-23 NEWS

Immunotherapy May Lead to Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
Specialty Pharmacy Times
“Exciting immunotherapy research like this increases the likelihood that one day insulin-producing cells can be protected and preserved,” said Karen Addington, UK chief executive of JDRF, which funded the research. “That would mean people at risk of

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‘Breakthrough’ Leukemia Drug Also Portends ‘Quantum Leap’ In Cost
Coeur d’Alene Press
The treatment, CTL019, belongs to a new class of medications called CAR T-cell therapies, which involve harvesting patients’ immune cells and genetically altering them to kill cancer. It’s been tested in patients whose leukemia has relapsed in spite of

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2017-08-23 NEWS

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Muscular dystrophy ‘death sentence’ targeted by gene therapy trials
Genetic Literacy Project
[T]hree U.S. teams say they are ready to try to treat Duchenne [Muscular Dystrophy] with gene therapy. The first study could begin as soon as next month at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio… Two other tests on children…are slated to