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The CRISPR companies are not in order
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The gene working tool Cripsr was supposed to change medicine – only five years ago a Nobel Procedure Committee announced that “the dream of curing in inherited diseases comes true.” Billions of dollars were spent on chasing that dream, but important scientific obstacles remained unsolved. Now, even when companies achieve encouraging results, that does not seem to prevent their shares from refueling.
Simply put, Stat’s Jason Mast writes: “There are surprisingly few places today where you can heal a disease with gene processing and earning money.” For his last story, Jason interviewed more than 75 investors, academics, managers, analysts and employees to find out where exactly the vision of the race went.
Read more. (Come before the analysis and stay for the comparisons. In a section on the CRISPR hype, Jason describes it “such as dropping a 3D printer in a medieval workshop.” Later he says that the tool “has become so indispensable for Lab scientists are for bakers.
Some children with headaches are treated differently in the ED
Black children and Spanish or Latino children who go to pediatric emergency departments, receive fewer migraine diagnoses, fewer tests and fewer intense treatments than white children who come in with the same symptoms, according to a study published yesterday in Neurology.
The study analyzed more than 160,400 visits by children up to 49 pediatric EDS between 2016 and 2022. Only 28% of the black and Spanish children received a migraine diagnosis compared to 46% of white children. Four percent of the black and Spanish children received an MRI compared to 9% of the white. And although there was no racial inequality in the number of patients received each Treatment, black children were 37% more likely than white to receive only oral medicines, without any intravenous treatment, and 20% less likely to be admitted to the hospital. Spanish children were 54% more likely to receive oral medicines and 35% less chance of being admitted.
Further research is needed, the authors write, to understand how these differences ultimately influence the health results of children and to develop interventions to tackle the inequalities.
A disturbing discovery in some herds in Nevada
Four dairy students in Nevada – previously thought that they have the same tension of bird flu that circulated in cows throughout the country – were actually infected with another version of the virus, USDA announced yesterday. The version of the virus that these cows have is one that goes around in wild birds who made a teenager in Canada seriously ill last year and led to a death in Louisiana last month.
The discovery is important because it means that expelling this virus from cows will be more difficult than the agency has estimated, experts told Stat’s Helen Branswell. Read more about the new finding and how experts respond.
In honor of school nurses
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Did you know that in the US there are more security personnel in secondary schools then there are full -time registered nurses? In a new essay of the first opinion, RN Sherrie Page Guyer argues that the philosophy of what makes a campus safe, “from fear to facts” must shift.
Of course, shootings at school are a persistent tragedy in American culture. But Guyer notes that medical emergency situations that require resuscitation or the management of life -saving medication are still much more likely in high schools than a shooting. School nurses can also be the first adult with whom a student talks when he needs behavioral health support.
Read more in Guyer’s essay about the benefits of arming every school with a nurse.
Salt replaces as a way to lower the risk of death, stroke
Scientists have long understood that the use of salt substitutes – who replace part of the sodium chloride with potassium chloride – can help reduce blood pressure of the blood. A few years ago, for the first time a randomized controlled study of more than 20,000 people showed a direct connection between the use of the replacements and a reduced risk of stroke. Now, a subgroup analysis from that study, published yesterday in Jama CardiologyDiscovered that among people who have already had a stroke, the use of salt substitutes was associated with a considerably reduced risk of a new stroke and death.
The subgroup analysis followed more than 15,000 people with a history of a stroke for an average of five years. In particular, they had a relative reduction of 30% of hemorrhagic stroke and 21% relative reduction of stroke-related deaths in the salt substitute group compared to those who regularly used salt. The results show that if they are scaled up, salt substitutes can be a simple and effective intervention around the world, the authors wrote.
A good news about: a cancer vaccine
Nine patients with advanced kidney cancer who received an experimental vaccine that was tailored to the specific mutations of their tumors, assembled an immune response to their illness and remained cancer -free for three years, demonstrated a clinical study in the early phase.
Cancer vaccines developed with different molecular recipes are still at an early stage, experts told Stat’s Liz Cooney. The study shows the potential of personalized vaccines to change the course of certain cancer types, but larger, longer studies are needed to confirm this approach. Read more about science.
What we read
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The transgender care fight focuses on more adults as Georgia and other states weigh laws, AP
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Freeze Freeze of Foreign Aid leaves millions without HIV treatment, New York Times
- The Maha era is here. The problems of RFK Jr. are just beginning, Stat
- Californian housing officials command state tenants against extreme heat, KFF Health News
- Argentina says that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization, which echoed Trump in, Stat