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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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In his recent First Opinion, “The long, exhausting reach of dementia care,” Jason Karlawish, a geriatric physician and co-director of the Penn Memory Center, wrote about how the coronavirus pandemic …
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The Covid-19 pandemic is reinforcing a grim lesson we should have taken to heart but haven’t: Some diseases harm not only patients but also people close to them, reverberating throughout …
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Has Europe lost the plot with Covid-19 vaccines? Can the latest treatment for Alzheimer’s disease succeed where so many others failed? And why don’t biotech companies just come clean when …
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Is consumer DNA testing a good business? Are Covid-19 vaccines interchangeable? And how do you IQ-test an artificial intelligence? We discuss all that and more this week on “The Readout …
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Is Alzheimer’s research stuck in a rut? Can genome editing live up to the hype? And how will we remember Operation Warp Speed? We discuss all that and more this …
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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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How well does Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine work? What’s the difference between efficacy and effectiveness? And should the FDA approve Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug? We discuss all that and more on this …
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