{"id":4246,"date":"2025-08-24T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:34:49","slug":"patient-may-become-first-person-in-louisiana-to-be-cured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"Patient May Become First Person in Louisiana to Be Cured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Daniel Cressy, 22, Hopes to Make History<\/strong><br>Daniel Cressy, a 22-year-old from New Orleans, is aiming to be the first person in Louisiana cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His dream of becoming a pilot depends on being \u201cfully cured of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Groundbreaking Treatment Begins<\/strong><br>On Wednesday, Daniel began the first of two six-hour sessions at Manning Family Children\u2019s Hospital to collect stem cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those cells will be sent overseas for genetic editing to fix the defect causing \u201cmisshapen, sickle-shaped red blood cells.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Big Step Forward<\/strong><br>\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s a relief,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming, and this is such a big step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re just hoping they collect enough cells so the process can move forward quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A New Alternative<\/strong><br>Until now, bone marrow transplants were the only long-term treatment, but this therapy offers new hope to patients without genetic matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cressy, 22, Hopes to Make HistoryDaniel Cressy, a 22-year-old from New Orleans, is aiming to be the first person in Louisiana cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy. His dream of becoming a pilot depends on being \u201cfully cured of the disease.\u201d Groundbreaking Treatment BeginsOn Wednesday, Daniel began the first of two six-hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}