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A panel of the Food and Drug Administration’s outside advisers voiced few concerns Tuesday during a daylong meeting wrestling with any potential risks posed by a new therapy that could cure sickle cell disease using a gene editing technology called CRISPR. If approved by the FDA, the infusion called exa-cel, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, could be
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Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws are fueling an exodus of OB/GYNs, with more than half of those who specialize in high-risk pregnancies expected to leave the state by the end of the year. Doctors CBS News spoke with said treating non-viable pregnancies, in which the fetus is not expected to survive, puts them and their patients
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Federal regulators are warning consumers to stop using a number of over-the-counter eye drops that may pose an infection risk, marking the latest of several alerts this year against artificial tears. The notice applies to 26 eye drop products marketed under several store brands, such as CVS Health, Rite Aid and Target Up & Up,
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FDA warns against using 26 over-the-counter eyedrops because of infection risk – CBS News Watch CBS News The FDA Monday warned against using more than two dozen over-the-counter eyedrops because of an eye infection risk that could lead to blindness. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news,
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Christine Rogers of Wake Forest, North Carolina, didn’t hesitate when she was asked to fill out a routine mental health questionnaire during a checkup last November. Her answers on the form led her primary care doctor to ask about depression and her mood, and Rogers said she answered honestly. “It was a horrible year. I
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Living an intersex life – CBS News Watch CBS News According to statistics cited by the U.N., .05 to 1.7 percent of the world’s population is intersex, defined as having external or internal sexual organs that are not clearly male or female. As a matter of course, doctors in the past performed surgery on babies,
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When Pidgeon Pagonis was born in a Chicago hospital 37 years ago, her doctors saw something that alarmed them. “I was born looking female on the outside,” Pagonis said, “and then it was discovered that on the inside of my body, I had not completely the parts that would be considered female.” Pidgeon (whose birth
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Topple Books & Little A We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. According to statistics cited by the U.N., between .05 and 1.7 percent of the world’s population is intersex, defined as having external or internal sexual organs that are not clearly male or female. In the memoir “Nobody
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Maine hospital’s trauma chief: “Sobering” to see destructive ability of rounds used in shooting – CBS News Watch CBS News Dr. Richard King, chief of trauma at Central Maine Medical Center, describes on “CBS Mornings” the “devastating injuries” he has seen in victims of the Maine mass shootings. View CBS News In Be the first
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An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago – the latest in a string of such cases brought as at-home DNA sampling enables people to learn more about their ancestry. Sharon Hayes, 67, of Hauser, Idaho, said in the lawsuit that
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