Live Oak’s Gaskins cured after life-saving medical trial

  • Marley Gaskins and her mother, Tamara Hogue, are pictured with UCLA Dr. Donald Kohn during a visit to California to take part in a clinical trial to combat severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I in 2019. Gaskins was the first patient to enroll in the study. (COURTESY)
    Marley Gaskins and her mother, Tamara Hogue, are pictured with UCLA Dr. Donald Kohn during a visit to California to take part in a clinical trial to combat severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I in 2019. Gaskins was the first patient to enroll in the study. (COURTESY)

    When her daughter was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that led to near-constant infections eight years ago, Tamara Hogue didn’t like the only option in front of them: a bone marrow transplant.

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