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The United Kingdom has become the first country to officially approve a gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease and thalassemia.

The regulatory agency in Britain has approved the first-ever gene therapy for sickle cell disease, potentially providing relief to numerous individuals suffering from this debilitating condition in the United Kingdom. On Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency announced that they have granted approval for Casgevy, the first medication to be licensed using the CRISPR

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The FTC has issued a warning to trade organizations and influencers in the food industry regarding proper disclosure of paid content on social media.

NEW YORK (AP) — On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had given warnings to two organizations in the food and beverage industry and twelve social media influencers for not properly disclosing their paid endorsements of a sweetener and sugary items. The characters refer to social media posts on Instagram and TikTok created

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Are you interested in weight loss medication? Before considering it, you may need to make changes to your lifestyle.

The state employee health plan in Connecticut was expected to allocate $30 million this year for a particular type of diabetes medication that is rapidly growing in popularity due to its effectiveness in promoting weight loss. Comptroller Sean Scanlon, the administrator of the plan that includes 265,000 employees such as teachers, police officers, and firefighters,

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Advocates claim that the Biden administration is not taking swift action as millions of people are being removed from Medicaid.

Approximately 30 million of the least wealthy individuals in the United States may be removed from the Medicaid program due to flawed state evaluations, a situation that poverty experts believe the Biden administration is not adequately addressing. According to Avalere, a health consulting company, states are currently reassessing the 94 million individuals enrolled in Medicaid,

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British specialists now advise administering the chickenpox vaccine to children, marking the first instance of this recommendation in the UK, many years after it was adopted in other nations.

The British government’s expert scientific committee suggested, for the first time on Tuesday, that children should receive the chickenpox vaccine. This recommendation comes decades after the vaccine has been widely accessible in other countries such as the U.S., Canada, and Australia. In the United Kingdom, individuals wishing to receive immunization against the illness must pay

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Has Hamas taken refuge in the primary hospital in Gaza? Israel’s accusation is currently a central issue in an ongoing impasse.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. Shifa is Gaza’s largest and best-equipped hospital. Israel, without providing visual evidence, claims the facility also is used by Hamas for military purposes. It says Hamas has built a vast underground command complex

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for According to internal records, the World Health Organization compensated individuals who experienced sexual abuse in Congo with a payment of $250 each.

In the beginning of this year, the leader of the World Health Organization’s anti-sexual abuse team visited Congo to confront the largest known instance of sexual misconduct in the U.N. health organization’s history. This involved over 100 local women being abused by employees and others during a serious Ebola outbreak. A recent report from Dr.

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