The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has launched an app that is designed to inform people about the science behind herbs and herbal supplements commonly marketed for…
According to a story from nature.com, gene therapy administered to fetuses could help curtail some of the worst effects of deadly genetic disorders. In a mouse model study, fetal delivery…
A married couple from Grimsby in England are planning to undergo kidney transplant surgery. Paula will donate her kidney to her husband Kevin, who has polycystic kidney disease. The original…
According to a story from pm360online.com, the company PledPharma recently announced that its drug candidate Aladote has completed its first safety evaluation with a positive result. Aladote is in development…
According to a story from healthline.com, many cancer survivors that have been treated with chemotherapy wind up facing significant challenges after their treatment. One such example is a phenomenon known…
Novartis has teamed up with Numinous Games to develop Galaxies of Hope, an app that is designed to support the neuroendocrine tumour (NET) community. You can read the original source…
Having a child was an exciting moment for the Blackwood family. Their son, Sam, is now nine years old. It was around his first birthday, however, that they started to…
Jaiden, a twelve-year-old boy, has been diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome, a rare disease that causes his skin to harden. His family has been sharing their experiences with the condition.…
I'll start this article, like many others, by mentioning that although I'm convinced I know everything about everything because I minored in biology in college, I'm really not a doctor.…
According to a story from Fierce Biotech, recent research is highlighting the possibility that PARP inhibitors, a type of targeted therapy that it mostly used to treat breast cancer and…
According to Medical Xpress, Professor and Doctor Joseph Wu is looking into the complications of DNA testing and genetic mutations. Specifically, the confusion of gene mutations that are labeled "variants…
Researchers from the University of Illinois have been studying the effects of endocannabinoids (a type of molecule that occurs naturally in the body) on cancer. So far, the researchers have…
According to a story from news.com.au, patients in Western Australia will start getting much cheaper access to a highly valuable treatment next month for a rare form of cancer called…
According to a story from eurakalert.org, researchers are using genetically modified zebrafish (Danio rerio) in an attempt to trace the origins of neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that forms in nerve tissue…
A recent lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson claimed that the company’s talcum powder was responsible for cases of ovarian cancer. According to a July 13th report by NBC, a judge…
According to a story from image.ie, the Italian journalist Veruska Anconitano first began to experience symptoms of myasthenia gravis when she was a child. She recalls bouts of weakness affecting…
Pain is one of the most intrusive things we can experience because it impacts nearly every aspect of our lives, especially if it is chronic. As Bonnie Prudden said, “Pain,…
A drug to treat prostate cancer has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The drug, Xtandi ® (enzalutamide), had previously been approved for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)…
According to a story from Reuters, the drug development company Zogenix, Inc. has announced in a recent statement that its investigational drug for the treatment of a rare type of…
The biotechnology company Philogen S.p.A. has announced that the US FDA has awarded Orphan Drug status to Daromun for the treatment of stages IIb to IV melanoma. The original media…
According to WebMD, kidney disease is is a condition that affects over 850 million people in the world. In more relative terminology, that means two times the amount of diabetics,…
According to a story from the Washington Post, a new technique for delivering genes into immune system T cells could make immunotherapy a much more accessible option for treating rare…
In an Article from AsiaOne.com, we meet John Ryan, retired nuclear reactor specialist who worked for the military when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now in remission he might…
According to a story from Chronicle Live, children struggling with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma and their families celebrated the news that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence…
Happy Friday, everyone! We hope the weekend is bringing everyone some time to relax. Today, we're wrapping up the week with four stories we wanted to highlight this week. We…
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