Category: Medical Discoveries
Boy with Inherited Blindness Receives FDA-Approved Gene Therapy
On March 22, Creed Pettit, a 9-year-old legally blind boy from Mount Dora, FL, became the first patient to undergo a landmark gene therapy surgery at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, part of the University…
4KScore Test Improves Screening for Lethal Prostate Cancer
A new algorithm is helping determine if a man at risk for prostate cancer has an aggressive, potentially lethal cancer needing biopsy. Or, if a man is more likely to…
HIV Prevention Efforts Give New Hope in Miami
As of 2015, South Florida ranked number one in the country for newly diagnosed HIV cases, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report issued last December.…