And one of the problems is we've got agencies that are helping women with things like therapy and food and help with their children.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall in New Orleans

"This approval unlocks the potential of gene therapy because it is a first at either the EMA or FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) for gene therapy, " uniQure's chief executive Jorn Aldag said in an interview.

MSN: European regulators back first gene therapy drug

That field is their hope, their therapy and their source of food and income.

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On April 28 Dendreon of Seattle notched Food and Drug Administration approval for Provenge, its cell therapy designed to train the immune system to fight prostate cancer.

FORBES

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unanimously voted Nov. 14 that Roche's new combination therapy for hepatitis C should be approved.

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The current standard treatment cures between 66% and 79% of patients with the most common type of hepatitis C, known as genotype 1, and who are undergoing the drug therapy for the first time, according to clinical data cited by the Food and Drug Administration.

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