{"id":12072,"date":"2017-10-23T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/23\/gene-therapy-for-bubble-baby-syndrome-approved-on-nhs\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:51:02","slug":"gene-therapy-for-bubble-baby-syndrome-approved-on-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12072","title":{"rendered":"Gene therapy for &#039;bubble baby&#039; syndrome approved on NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s Strimvelis is the first such treatment to be funded in the UKThe NHS will fund gene therapy for the first time after the UK\u2019s healthcare cost watchdog approved treatment for the so-called \u201cbubble baby\u201d syndrome, despite a price tag of more than \u00a3500,000.The treatment is used against adenosine deaminase deficiency, or ADA-SCID, which disables the immune system and means that children with the illness have to be kept in isolation to avoid infection \u2013 hence the \u201cbubble baby\u201d name. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/oct\/23\/gene-therapy-for-bubble-baby-syndrome-approved-on-nhs-strimvelis\" target=\"_blank\">Gene therapy for &#039;bubble baby&#039; syndrome approved on NHS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s Strimvelis is the first such treatment to be funded in the UKThe NHS will fund gene therapy for the first time after the UK\u2019s healthcare cost watchdog approved treatment for the so-called \u201cbubble baby\u201d syndrome, despite a price tag of more than \u00a3500,000.The treatment is used against adenosine deaminase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}