Author: healthylife7

For more than a decade, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy has transformed the treatment landscape for certain blood cancers. Now, researchers believe the next major leap might come from combining CAR T with powerful gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR (which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) and TALEN (which stands for…

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As more Americans use GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to shrink their waistlines, retail giants are betting on a bottom-line bump tied to a shift in the way the drugs are priced and purchased. Employers are dropping coverage for GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound in greater numbers, nudging more patients to direct-to-consumer prescription programs, and providing…

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