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Reasons You Should Listen to Your Body, Not the Internet
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Reasons You Should Listen to Your Body, Not the Internet

  • Post author:Al Pendleton
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Ovarian Cancer/Rare Disease

They say that technology has made life easier, faster, more comfortable, and on and on and on. Who this “they” is, I don’t know. While technology has made certain parts…

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Shocking Results from Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trial
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Shocking Results from Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trial

  • Post author:Al Pendleton
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Multiple Myeloma/Rare Disease

The process of getting a treatment approved by the FDA is long and involved. Needless to say, the process is so complicated to protect us, the people who will be…

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Achoo! Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Say Keep Your Germs to Yourself
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Achoo! Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Say Keep Your Germs to Yourself

  • Post author:Chloe Easterbrook
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Cystic Fibrosis/Rare Disease

There is nothing worse than a summer cold. I should know. I am the proud owner of a bonafide summer cold complete with a runny nose, sore throat, coughing fits,…

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Sit. Stay. Heal. Dogs Take on Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis
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Sit. Stay. Heal. Dogs Take on Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis

  • Post author:Minden Cantrell
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Parkinson's Disease/Rare Disease

Dogs have been helping humans for centuries. As early as the mid-1700s, dogs were being used by the blind as guides. In 1929, The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog…

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Orphan Drug Status Given to a New and Upcoming IPF Treatment
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Orphan Drug Status Given to a New and Upcoming IPF Treatment

  • Post author:Athena Lee
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis/IPF/Rare Disease

Recently, the U.S. FDA has deemed a particular idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) drug "orphan drug status" worthy. Last week, on July 25, 2017, it was reported that the FDA granted…

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Running Multiple Myeloma 200 Miles into the Ground in Central Park
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Running Multiple Myeloma 200 Miles into the Ground in Central Park

  • Post author:Al Pendleton
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Multiple Myeloma

I love the bumper sticker that reads: “13.1 Because I’m only half crazy.” It makes me laugh, as do most bumper stickers that require a certain degree of esoteric knowledge…

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Time is Running Out for Epidermolysis Bullosa Clinical Trial
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Time is Running Out for Epidermolysis Bullosa Clinical Trial

  • Post author:Sabina Kennedy
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Epidermolysis Bullosa/Rare Disease/Timely

Let’s talk clinical trials. Clinical trials are part of clinical research and at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat…

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Panel Approves New Cancer Drug, Paving the Way for First FDA-Approved Gene Therapy
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Panel Approves New Cancer Drug, Paving the Way for First FDA-Approved Gene Therapy

  • Post author:Jean Martell
  • Post published:July 31, 2017
  • Post category:Leukemia

Pharma giant Novartis's new cancer drug tisagenlecleucel passed a critical test by winning the support of a federal advisory panel - setting it up for final FDA approval in September.…

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