Depending on your individual circumstances, a daily stool softener or another simple laxative may be an appropriate remedy. Changing your diet and making other lifestyle changes are likely to have a positive effect, too. â Adil E. Bharucha, MBBS, M.D., Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
The first successful gene therapy experiment occurred on September 14, 1990, when Ashanti DeSilva was treated for ADA-SCID. By January 2014, some 2,000 clinical trials had been conducted or approved.
Gene therapy is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. In the future, this technique may allow doctors to treat a disorder by inserting a gene into a patientâs cells instead of using drugs or surgery.