Wired News - Limiting Gene Therapy for Kids:
"WASHINGTON -- Federal health advisers recommended Friday that gene therapy treatments for children with a severe immune deficiency be restricted to those who have no alternative.
The Food and Drug Administration convened the panel after a 3-year-old French boy became the third child to develop cancer after receiving gene therapy for treatment for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency, or X-SCID. The FDA had asked U.S. researchers doing similar work to put it on hold."
