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A history of blood cancer treatment

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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of doctors, patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, people diagnosed with blood cancer are now living longer, with a steady stream of more effective treatments entering the market each year. 2012 – The 100,000 Genomics Project begins.

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Building a better future for people with rare diseases in all four UK nations

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The detail remains to be written,” he said, explaining that all four nations would now develop their own action plans for the implementation of the framework. “We Beyond the framework we are also currently developing proposals for an innovative medicines fund,” said Lord Bethell, describing it as an extension of the Cancer Drugs Fund. “It

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Expediting innovation in the rare disease domain

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Every time a patient with a rare condition walks into a hospital, doctors face the probable challenge of starting from scratch. With only <10% of the affected people having treatment for their rare condition, the question remains – what impedes the process of developing a treatment for such diseases?

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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She developed fine for the first six months of her life,” he says, “but then she stopped smiling, she stopped giggling, and stopped taking an interest in her surroundings. Doctors were able to control the seizures, and Charlie’s daughter started to progress normally again, but a year and a half later she had another serious seizure at night.

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Searching for answers in rare epilepsy

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She developed fine for the first six months of her life,” he says, “but then she stopped smiling, she stopped giggling, and stopped taking an interest in her surroundings. Doctors were able to control the seizures, and Charlie’s daughter started to progress normally again, but a year and a half later she had another serious seizure at night.

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Women in Science Who Have Paved the Way Forward in Genetics

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The Human Genome Project recently marked 20 years since the publication of the first full sets of human genomic sequences, an endeavor that spanned well over a decade. Today, new next-generation sequencing technologies allow for the sequencing of complex genomes within just a day or two.

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