We Need to Talk About Chronic Illness and Suicide
Content Warning: This article discusses sensitive topics of mental illness and suicide as it relates to rare and chronic illness. There's no easy way to talk about suicide. This article…
Content Warning: This article discusses sensitive topics of mental illness and suicide as it relates to rare and chronic illness. There's no easy way to talk about suicide. This article…
The US Food and Drug Administration and Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. have met to discuss lonafarnib, a drug being investigated as a potential treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. For more detailed…
Doctors in Britain are being urged to write outpatient clinic letters in plain English and address them to their patients, rather than using technical medical language written to the patient’s…
A new clinical trial, which can be found here at clinicaltrials.gov, is slated to begin and is currently recruiting patients. In this trial, the investigational drug pacritinib will be tested…
Researchers are looking for participants to take part in a study investigating whether a mobile app could benefit patients with multiple sclerosis. For more information about this study and how…
According to a story from The Rheumatologist, a recent study of neurosarcoidosis is providing new information into how this disease develops, as well as how it can be categorized. This…
According to a story from The Daily Telegraph, Huon May was diagnosed with a serious case of stage 4 neuroblastoma when he was just ten weeks old. The cancer was…
According to a story from PR Newswire, the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) recently announced that it will be conducting a meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This…
Who Lives With a Chronic Illness? A Lot of People. More than half of the world’s population lives with a chronic condition and of the 2 trillion the US spends…
According to a story from The Chicago Tribune, Darnesha Bankston, age 23, was rushed to the hospital just before Christmas last year with a bunch of severe, life threatening symptoms.…
According to a story from Euroinvestor, the biotechnology company argenx recently announced that it has gotten correspondence from Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in regards to the design…