WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following news release: A recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) who challenged the denial of services by a Florida credit union has reached a confidential resolution with the company. The 2024 lawsuit challenging the policies of Space Coast Credit Union was filed by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and Orlando-based Symphorien-Saavedra Law on behalf of Jose Rendon Leyva, of Fort Pierce, Florida. The case wa more PR

MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: A new gene therapy, ELEVIDYS, has been approved to treat older Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. UHealth--University of Miami Health System and Holtz Children's Hospital physicians are playing a major role in getting them access. The therapy delivers a functional micro-gene to muscle cells, potentially arresting DMD progression and, in some cases, possibly reversing it. ELEVIDYS received accelerated FDA approval in 2023 more PR

MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Rachel Tompa Mikkael Sekeres, M.D., M.S., remembers his medical school teachers telling the class that 50% of what they were learning would be obsolete in 10 years. They just couldn't predict which 50%. "Where we are now is night and day from where I started in this field," said Dr. Sekeres, who is chief of the Division of Hematology at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medi more PR