Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction—it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...

Discover the current pipeline candidates advancing through the clinic for the treatment of sickle cell disease.

SRT CEO Patrick Girondi and Artist and Project Manager Megan Euker with newly restored San Rocco sculpture, Altamura, Italy.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named 33 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, as participants in its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, which is designed to treat ...

CMS is brokering outcomes-based agreements on behalf of Medicaid programs. Thirty-three states, along with Washington, D.C., ...

The participating regions are home to 84 percent of sickle cell Medicaid patients who could gain access to gene therapies under outcomes-based agreements.

CMS has reached agreements with drug manufacturers to provide gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease to Medicaid recipients under a new outcomes-based model. A total of 33 states, including the ...

States representing about 84% of Medicaid beneficiaries are participating in an initiative that enables the U.S. government ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye, a doctor, sorts through the difference between sickle cell anemia and sickle cell disease — and more.

The model was initially launched by the Biden administration in February 2023, and CMS announced that SCD would be the first focus of the model the following January. This is the ...

A total of 33 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, agreed to participate in the U.S. CMS’ voluntary, outcomes-based program aimed at helping state Medicaid programs cover high-priced ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected 35 participants for its new, voluntary Cell and Gene ...