Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Research Roundup: Covid-Related CVD; IVF; Gene Therapy; Alzheimer's
COVID-19 patients are six times more likely than uninfected people to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) and nearly twice as likely to receive a new diabetes diagnosis, but the risk begins to recede at 5 weeks and 12 weeks, respectively, concludes a UK study published yesterday in PLOS Medicine. (Van Beusekom, 7/20)
Spontaneous errors in the earliest phase of cell division may be the reason why so many human embryos fail to develop normally, according to new research. (Columbia University of Irving Medical Center, 7/19)
FLT180a (verbrinacogene setparvovec) is a liver-directed adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy that uses a synthetic capsid and a gain-of-function protein to normalize factor IX levels in patients with hemophilia B. (Chowdary, M.D., et al, 7/21)
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease are caused by folding errors (misfolding) in proteins or peptides, i.e. by changes in their spatial structure. (Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie (KIT), 7/20)
