as raging wildfires reduce vast expanses to scorched earth.

Both sickle cell disease and thalassemia are caused by mistakes in the genes that carry hemoglobin.Patients first receive a course of chemotherapy.

Gene therapy treatments can cost millions of dollars and experts have previously raised concerns that they could remain out of reach for the people who would benefit most.the genetic mutation can cause severe anemia.The cells are then infused back into the patient for a permanent treatment.

Expert joins CBS New York to discuss new sickle cell treatment Expert joins CBS New York to discuss new sickle cell treatment 02:46 Britains medicines regulator has authorized the worlds first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease.works by targeting the problematic gene in a patients bone marrow stem cells so that the body can make properly functioning hemoglobin.

calling the MHRAs approval of gene therapy a positive moment in history.

which won its makers a Nobel Prize in 2020.But the program can be opaque and.

That often dissuades older workers from continuing to work after they claim.The overpayment trapThis issue impacts about 1 million Social Security recipients a year.

Each persons situation is unique.The widows scamAnother mistake that can result in lost benefits is what Kotlikoff calls the widows scam.