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CRISPR Potential to Overcome Sickle Cell Disease
CRISPR Has the Potential to Snip Out Sickle Cell Disease Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and affects millions of people across the globe. A new technology, known as CRISPR, may change all that. CRISPR is short for “clustered regularly interspaced short […]
2017 Trends in Cancer Care Drugs
2017 Trends in Cancer Care Drugs Frank Magliochetti Report Cancer drug development will continue to be a key focus area in 2017. While the number of new cancer cases in the United States each year remains constant at about 1.7 million, the American Cancer Society says that the cancer death rate has plummeted 23 percent […]
Pharmacogenomic Testing & Health Care Costs
Pharmacogenomic Testing: Could it Reduce Health Care Cost? A relatively new type of drug testing could reduce health care costs. This type of testing is known as pharmacogenomic testing. It looks at how the genes a person inherits affects how medications works in his or her body. Many things can affect how drugs work in […]
Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria:
How the Fight is Progressing in 2016 Frank Magliochetti Report Bacteria that are resistant to common antibiotics have been around for some time. Unfortunately, they have become more widespread and more deadly than they were in times past. Following are some new major developments that may result in mankind either succumbing to antibiotic resistant […]
Covid19 The Pandemic (Almost) Nobody Saw Coming
Of all the changes 2020 had brought, almost nobody saw coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) coming. First reported in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the newly discovered coronavirus (2019-nCoV) quickly made its way around the globe, killing thousands and sickening hundreds of thousands more. There is quite a bit of information out there to disseminate […]