From The Beginning: A Conversation With An Equine Orthopedic Pioneer Sponsored by:
Do you ever wonder how someone becomes an expert in a given field? Brilliance, tenacity, ambition, savvy, every one in heaping measure? And then some, likely! Without question, Wayne McIlwraith proved a forerunner in the field of equine orthopedics, influencing how skeletal problems are treated in high-performance horses. In a candid interview with Kentucky Equine Research, he described his childhood in rural New Zealand and how he ended up in the United States. Along the way, you ll learn of the extraordinary contributions he has made to the horse industry.
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Patient, Heal Thyself Treatments from our own cells could cure many diseases if Washington will only allow it to happen.
Health Care
Personalized medicine” has become a familiar term that refers to the process of fitting drugs to patient molecular profiles that make it likely that the drugs will perform effectively and safely. Now emerging is literally personal medicine: treatments derived entirely from a patient’s own cells, or almost so, and largely controlled by the nimble and powerful biochemical know-how already embedded in those cells.
Unlike conventional drugs, these cell therapies are created from scratch, one patient at a time, and many of the tools used to create them are simple, compact, and cheap enough to land in laboratories that serve hospitals, small clinics, and doctors in private practice. They have been landing there in growing numbers in the last decade, and Washington has been trying to keep pace. The Food and Drug Admi