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When is a public health problem a crisis?LA has the worst quality roads.CERN explained.IV fluid shortage.Too many 3-pointers.

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Beam’s Base-Editing Sickle Cell Therapy Shows Early Promise, But a Fatality Overshadows Results

The death wasn’t due to Beam Therapeutics’ sickle cell disease therapy, BEAM-101, but was instead attributed to the preconditioning treatment needed before the genetic medicine is infused. A different Beam program in preclinical development could avoid the need for toxic preconditioning; data from both programs will be presented during the upcoming American Society of Hematology…

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Dave A. Chokshi Joins KFF Board of Trustees

San Francisco – KFF announced today that Dr. Dave Ashok Chokshi, a practicing physician and health leader, has joined KFF’s Board of Trustees.  Dr. Chokshi is a physician at Bellevue Hospital as well as Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the City College of New York.

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Q&A: What Does the Budget Bill Mean for Your Health? 

LISTEN: Congress is considering roughly $800 billion in Medicaid cuts. You could feel the effects even if you’re not on the government program for people with low incomes and disabilities. KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explained how on WAMU’s “Health Hub,” June 18.  Health programs including Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, and…

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‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.” In a June 9 letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said…

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