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Case of brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support in Georgia raises tricky questions
The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who has been on life support since she was declared brain dead three months ago has ...
US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen
There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.
How an experimental gene editing treatment helped a desperately ill baby
The baby KJ Muldoon suffers of a rare genetic disease, but now thanks to an experimental gene editing treatment, he is now on ...
Dr. Kiran Joshi named chief operating officer of Cook County Department of Public Health
The Cook County Department of Public Health has a new leader. Dr. Kiran Joshi has been named Chief Operating Officer of the ...
Infant becomes world's first patient to undergo personalized gene-editing treatment
KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.