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Scientists have started to test whether natural killer, or NK, cells can be trained to go after hard-to-cure blood cancers in human patients. But making these sentinels of the innate …
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What does $45 billion buy you these days? Is clinical trial tourism a business? And will no one think of the patents? We cover all that and more this week …
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Six patients with dementia traveled to Mexico last year to be injected with a gene therapy not authorized for use in the U.S., according to the CEO of a Seattle-area …
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Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends of their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have been just …
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In this week’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I speak with Alzheimer’s expert Jason Karlawish, director of Penn’s Memory Center, about his recent First Opinion, “The long, exhausting reach of dementia care.” …
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As the Food and Drug Administration moves closer to a decision about whether to approve a promising new Alzheimer’s treatment, the collaboration between scientists, regulators, and business leaders that produced …
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“Mom is getting older,” my brother said to me as we chatted on the phone. “We need to prepare.” He started offering ideas. “Should we make a fund for her …
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Alzheimer’s disease runs in photographer Jalal Shamsazaran’s family: his aunt, grandfather, and father, Majid, all have been diagnosed. So as he documented the final years of his father’s life, in …
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Can too much Covid-19 vaccine be a bad thing? Is biotech in a bubble? And how do you make blind mice see again? We discuss all that and more on …
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