134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to 2.6 million deaths annually! Safety in health systems is a major global concern due to the enlarging numbers of people suffering avoidable harm while receiving healthcare. Recognizing the urgency of ...
Lire la suite...34 year old Victoria Gray will be the first American to get controversial gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease
Victoria Gray, 34-year-old mother-of-four, has volunteered to be the first American to have their genes edited with the controversial CRISPR technology to treat her SickleCell disease (SCD). For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a ...
Lire la suite...World Hepatitis Day 2019
World Hepatitis Day (WHD) takes places every year on 28 July bringing the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Viral hepatitis B and C affect 325 million people ...
Lire la suite...World Hepatitis Day 2019
World Hepatitis Day (WHD) takes places every year on 28 July bringing the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Viral hepatitis B and C affect 325 million people ...
Lire la suite...FDA Accelerates Review Of Sickle Cell Disease Medicine Crizanlizumab
Novartis announced earlier today the FDA accepted the company’s Biologics License Application (BLA) and has granted Priority Review for its investigational Sickle Cell (SCD) medicine Crizanlizumab. If FDA-approved, crizanlizumab is expected to represent the first monoclonal antibody targeting the P-selectin mediated multi-cellular adhesion in sickle cell disease! Novartis submitted the application ...
Lire la suite...Drones Land in the Cell and Gene Therapy Space
Cell and gene therapies could be literally flying high soon from now! The Italy-based biotech company Anemocyte, in collaboration with RPS Aerospace, developed a remotely piloted drone system to securely transport final cell and gene therapy products straight from manufacturing sites to clinical centers. The current prototype can also transport ...
Lire la suite...TIF and the UKTS set up an official thalassaemia training programme for Nepalese nurses
From 14 July to 20 August 2019, two nurses from the Nepal Thalassaemia Society Blood Transfusion Centre will have the unique opportunity to receive intensive, official thalassaemia training at the Haematology Department at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). Nurses and other medical staff often lack knowledge for ...
Lire la suite...The Mumbai Hematology Group to host the 8th Thalassemia Lunch-on Symposium in October 2019
The Mumbai Hematology Group, in collaboration with the Youth Thalassemic Alliance, is organizing the 8th Thalassemia Lunch-on Symposium on Saturday, 12th October 2019. The event will take place in the S P Jain Auditorium of the Bombay Hospital, Mumbai. Several renowned speakers, including Dr Maria-Domenica Cappellini from Italy, will ...
Lire la suite...Bluebird puts €1.58m price on gene therapy Zynteglo
Bluebird bio Inc. set a price for its gene therapy, Zynteglo, at 1.58 million euros ($1.78 million) over five years, after winning conditional approval in Europe earlier this month to to treat patients 12 years and older with transfusion-dependent β-thalassaemia (TDT), who have no matching donor for a stem ...
Lire la suite...World Blood Donor Day – 14 June 2019
This year, World Blood Donor Day will once again be celebrated around the world on 14 June! The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and also to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals and ...
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