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  2. Race and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Socioeconomic factors are the related cause, alongside it presenting barriers to treatment in the disease. [30] Sickle cell disease is more susceptible to be found in those of descent from places such as those in the Mediterranean, Italy, Turkey, and Greece, as well as Africa and regions of South and Central America. [48]

  3. CRISPR gene editing - Wikipedia

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    In 2023, the first drug making use of CRISPR gene editing, Casgevy, was approved for use in the United Kingdom to cure sickle-cell disease and beta thalassemia. [13] [14] Casgevy was approved for use in the United States on December 8, 2023, by the Food and Drug Administration. [15]

  4. Presidency of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

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    [114] [115] The second initiative, focused on Sickle-cell disease (SCD), resulted in passage of the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act in May 1972. Long ignored, the lifting of SCD from obscurity to high visibility reflected the changing dynamics of electoral politics and race relations in America during the early 1970s.

  5. Renal cell carcinoma - Wikipedia

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    However, a study by Delahunt et al. (2007) has shown that the Fuhrman grading is ideal for clear cell carcinoma but may not be appropriate for chromophobe renal cell carcinomas and that the staging of cancer (accomplished by CT scan) is a more favourable predictor of the prognosis of this disease. [65]

  6. COVID variant XEC sees rapid global growth: What to know ...

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    September 16, 2024 at 7:24 PM. As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U ...

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    According to an analysis of new census data, 24.6% of homeowners in Miami-Dade County don’t have meaningful homeowners insurance. In Florida, the figure is 18.3%, and nationwide it’s 13.4%.

  8. Genetics - Wikipedia

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    Sickle-cell versions of hemoglobin stick to themselves, stacking to form fibers that distort the shape of red blood cells carrying the protein. These sickle-shaped cells no longer flow smoothly through blood vessels, having a tendency to clog or degrade, causing the medical problems associated with this disease. [citation needed]

  9. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

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