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James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”. The first girl to be…

SANFORD, Fla. —Seminole County Public Schools Superintendent Serita Beamon was at Seminole High School Monday to tout the success ofSCPS’s Health Academy. The program isn’t new, but it received major renovations and upgrades, including for this new school year, that equip its students with very real and modernized medical equipment and spaces. Beamon says those…

Sir Julian Hartley, Chief Executive the Care Quality Commission which is the independent regulator of all health and adult social care services in England, has resigned. The announcement comes just days after an independent inquiry into maternity care at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was announced. Mr Hartley had previously spent a decade leading…

Fourteen NHS trusts are to have their maternity services examined over what has been described as “failures in the system”, the government has said. The inquiries are part of a rapid review of maternity care in England that was announced in June. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said bereaved families had shown “extraordinary courage” in coming…