AN innovative idea which helped to save the lives of coronavirus patients has seen Warrington and Halton Hospitals shortlisted for another prestigious award. The black box is a simple medical device that was transformed into a life-saving therapy for some of the most seriously ill patients with Covid-19 in the spring of 2020. Aware of the expected national shortage of ventilators, a team of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals across Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WHH) made a brilliant discovery. It involved modifying simple continuous positive airway pressure black boxes, which are regularly used as therapy for significant breathing problems and low oxygen, as well as to treat patients with chronic sleep apnoea.
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Couple who met at Fenway Park 54 years ago gets vaccinated at Boston ballpark Share Updated: 8:33 AM EST Mar 9, 2021 Share Updated: 8:33 AM EST Mar 9, 2021
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TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 8:33 AM EST Mar 9, 2021 A couple who met at Fenway Park celebrated another milestone in their lives at the home of the Boston Red Sox on Monday.Donna and Thomas Wall, who also got engaged at the ballpark, both received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Fenway.The Walls met at Fenway Park in 1967, which has become known as The Impossible Dream season, in Section 9. Four years later, the couple got engaged in the bleachers. Then, we had our 35th wedding anniversary here in 2007, Thomas Wall said. And vaccination today. Full circle, Donna Wall said. To start this year with being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and, hopefully, maybe take the grandsons and the granddaughters to a ballgame
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University of Illinois Chicago is one of the U.S. sites participating in clinical trials to cure severe red blood congenital diseases such as sickle cell anemia or Thalassemia by safely modifying the DNA of patients blood cells.
The first cases treated with this approach were recently published in an article co-authored by Dr. Damiano Rondelli, the Michael Reese Professor of Hematology at the UIC College of Medicine. The article reports two patients have been cured of beta thalassemia and sickle cell disease after their own genes were edited with CRISPR-Cas9 technology. The two researchers who invented this technology received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.