Gene therapy is a revolutionary breakthrough in human healthcare. I has cured previously incurable diseases including cancers and rare genetic disorders, and it possesses the potential to cure many more types of diseases and conditions claiming the lives of our loved ones today and in the future. But why haven’t you heard about it despite it being covered extensively in the Western media? Where are the treatments and why aren’t they more accessible? What can we do about this obstruction of human progress and the impediment of saving human life? References: New York Times - In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia (2012): Emily Whitehead Foundation: Health Affairs - Drugs Don’t Work If People Can’t Afford Them: The High Price Of Tisagenlecleucel (2018):
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