Rebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Rebekah Gee, founder and CEO of Nest Health, which provides in-home care to kids on Medicaid and their families. Harlan reports on the first personalized CRISPR gene therapy for a rare genetic disease; Howie untangles the FDA’s restrictions on the COVID-19 booster and what it will mean for your ability to get a shot this fall.
Links:
A Breakthrough CRISPR Treatment
“Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment”
“Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease”
“Progress in the Development of N-of-1 Therapy”
“Personalized Gene Editing to Treat an Inborn Error of Metabolism”
Nest Health
Health & Veritas Episode 40: Rebekah Gee: Can We Bring Family Healthcare to the Home?
“Nest Health picks up $4M in seed extension funding to build out at-home primary care for families”
“How Nest Health Is Redefining Primary Care for Families”
Rebekah Gee on LinkedIn on Nest Health
“What ‘patient-centered‘ should mean: confessions of an extremist”
“Prevalence and Variation of Developmental Screening and Surveillance in Early Childhood”
“Postpartum health is in crisis”
“The Impact of the Pandemic on Well-Child Visits for Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP”
“Families often have chief medical officers—and they're almost always women”
“Case Study: Louisiana's Poor Rankings Make Improving Birth Outcomes a State Imperative”
“In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights”
Rebekah Gee on LinkedIn on Medicaid cuts
“5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements”
“Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill”
A New COVID Booster Policy
“An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination”
“FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say”
“FDA tightens requirements for COVID vaccine, adding trials for healthy adults”
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