Last month, I wrote about a whiteboard of collected memories I received as a gift when I graduated from college in 2005. It had 38 pictures on it that showcased the many life adventures I’d had up to that point. I noted that the whiteboard recently fell off the wall…
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Ready or not, we’re about to say “Adios!” to another month. Our daughter, Katie, and son-in-law, Paul, arrive today for a whirlwind visit, sending July packing with a bang. A few hours after Katie and Paul depart for their next destination, the rest of the family will be hurled into…
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I had a date with Count Dracula. An award-winning ballet adaptation of Bram Stoker’s immortal creation — “Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest” — was to arrive in my homeland of Singapore for the summer, and a friend of mine got wind of the news. The production promised an…
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A combined newborn screening test for two rare diseases — spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a condition that leaves infants with little or no working immune systems — correctly identified every affected baby, with no missed or false diagnoses. The five-year Italian pilot screened 32,289…
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Do you remember the summer of 1998? It’s been a while, so let me remind you. It was the season of blockbuster movies like “Saving Private Ryan” and “The Mask of Zorro.” The airwaves were filled with hits by stars like the Backstreet Boys and Shania Twain,…
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Treatment before birth with RG7916, a compound similar to Evrysdi (risdiplam), improved weight, muscle health, motor function, and survival in a mouse model of severe spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a study found. However, treatment given only before birth, or prenatally, did not fully preserve numbers of motor neurons…
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