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Jalen Matthews stretches on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Gene therapy offers new hope for sickle cell disease cure

Regulators on Friday approved two new one-time gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure sickle cell disease.

Dec. 8, 2023

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COVID-19 Pandemic: News, Links & Resources

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Covid-19 Pandemic and the Coronavirus

Pasadena, CA - October 12: Liliana Ramos, 43, of Los Angeles, receives a vaccine at a flu and COVID vaccination clinic Kaiser Permanente Pasadena on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Pasadena, CA. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

New COVID vaccines are here: Now’s the time to get one, officials say

Only 5% of Californians have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine since it became more widely available earlier this month, and health officials say that’s not good enough.

Oct. 27, 2023

Dr. Drew Weissman, left, a physician-scientist, and biochemist Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Scientists whose work on mRNA paved the way for first COVID-19 vaccines win Nobel Prize

Oct. 2, 2023

FILE - A Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a pharmacy in Cypress, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Fall 2023 vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials in the U.S. urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone. New this year are vaccines for older adults and women in late pregnancy to guard against another virus named RSV. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

What you need to know as fall vaccinations against COVID, flu and RSV get underway

Sept. 29, 2023

FILE - A syringe of of ivermectin — a drug used to kill worms and other parasites — intended for use in horses only, rests on its box in Olympia, Wash., on Sept. 10, 2021. Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, May 2, 2023, that a hospital could not be forced to give the deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Column: Right-wing judges are on a mission to stop the FDA from warning consumers about snake oil

Sept. 27, 2023

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Jan. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot, the White House says

Sept. 23, 2023

Opinion: Scientists have become sitting ducks. We need leaders to step up and defend us

Sept. 22, 2023

Where Southern Californians can find the new COVID-19 vaccine

Sept. 20, 2023

U.S. announces $600 million to produce COVID tests and will reopen website for orders

Sept. 20, 2023

More COVID shots are coming. Will a weary public be more interested this year?

Sept. 13, 2023

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