Paige Twenter

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In a world first, a team from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine has successfully treated a patient with a customized CRISPR gene-editing therapy. The patient, KJ, was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency. Standard treatment for the rare metabolic disease is a liver transplant, but patients like KJ, who are too young or medically unstable, are not eligible for these transplants.

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HHS reinstated 328 CDC workers May 14, reversing a portion of the sweeping federal workforce layoffs, NBC News reported. The employees are part of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which focuses on preventing and treating workplace-related illnesses. Their roles included screening coal miners for black lung disease and facilitating healthcare coverage for 9/11 first responders.

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A Florida man was sentenced May 14 to two years in federal prison for evading about $2.4 million in income taxes related to his medical equipment sales, according to the Justice Department. Roger Whitman generated millions of dollars between 2002 and 2018 from selling Rife machines, which “use energy waves to purportedly treat a wide range of medical conditions,” the department said. There is little evidence that Rife machines have a clinical benefit.

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Madelia (Minn.) Health will close its only pharmacy May 28 due to rising costs. The location is the sole pharmacy in Lake Crystal, Minn., which has a population of 2,539, according to a May 12 Free Press report. The drugstore has been operating for five years. “Much like others in the industry, Madelia Health has not been immune to the challenges of the current pharmaceutical climate, including rising costs,” the system said in a May 12 news release.

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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s radiology department is one of the health system’s largest consumers of artificial intelligence, according to a May 14 report from The New York Times. The health system, which operates 16 hospitals, uses more than 250 AI models across its footprint. In radiology, the technology enhances imaging, automates routine tasks, analyzes tissue, identifies medical abnormalities and predicts disease, according to the Times.