Category: Medical Discoveries
Medical Discoveries
New Treatment for Hepatitis C
For the more than 3.2 million Americans living with hepatitis C, the cost of treatment for the chronic liver disease is an expensive proposition, costing tens of thousands of dollars. Now, however, a nonprofit…
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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,…
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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.…