Rose became acquainted with Patient Worthy after her husband was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) six years ago. During this period of partial remission, Rose researched investigational drugs to be prepared in the event of a relapse. Her husband died February 12, 2021 with a rare and unexplained occurrence of liver cancer possibly unrelated to AML.
The use of the gene therapy elivaldogene autotemcel (Skysona), has been approved due to its success in the treatment of patients diagnosed with the neurological disease cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). The…
Continue ReadingGene Therapy Promising for Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy but Carries Risk of Blood Cancer
According to a recent report in Healio News, the GLP-1 agonists are medications developed primarily to control blood sugar levels for type two diabetes. About the FLOW Clinical Trial The…
Continue ReadingThe Newest Medications to Treat Chronic Kidney Disease in Type Two Diabetes
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare disease causing progressive muscular weakness. Severe forms of the disease can be fatal to infants. Apitegromab is an experimental therapy that was successful…
Continue ReadingPositive Trial Data is Welcomed News for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patients
Eighty-five-year-old Frank Meuers considers his 500th immunoglobulin infusion to be a cause for celebration. Frank has logged details of his doctor’s visits since his first dose of replacement therapy with…
Continue ReadingIt Took Almost 60 Years for the Correct Diagnosis and Treatment for Primary Immunodeficiency
The Riken Center team, headed by Dr. Takaomi Saido and using mice with Alzheimer’s, discovered that dopamine may lessen the brain’s physical symptoms and improve memory. The study, featured in…
Continue ReadingAlzheimer’s: Researchers at Japan’s Riken Center Discover a New Treatment to Alleviate Symptoms and Improve Memory
Fredericksburg, Virginia resident Johnny Boatman is a former national guardsman who had been in excellent physical condition all his life. That was until 2022 when he felt a sharp pain…
Continue Reading‘Anyone with a Heart’ Campaign Spreads Awareness About Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis
It has been almost a decade since the European medical community welcomed news of an innovation for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). Therefore, the EC’s recent conditional approval of Ipsen’s drug…
Continue ReadingNew Drug Approved in the EU to Treat Primary Biliary Cholangitis
In 2023 a 19-year-old male teenager was suffering from memory decline that first began when he was 17 years of age. His cognitive losses continued during the next few years.…
A protein called Aplp1 is now on the radar for its ability to spread material in the brain that may be responsible for Parkinson’s disease. Another protein, Lag3, interacts with…
Continue ReadingCould This Cancer Drug Play a Role in Parkinson’s Treatment?
Researchers discovered a version of the Cas protein that fits into adeno-associated viruses (AAVs). This virus can be engineered to deliver targeted therapy to cells and is a common approach…
Continue ReadingDiscovery of More Compact Cas Protein Heralds Progress for Gene Therapy
Almost 100,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with sickle cell disease (SCD). About one million people worldwide have the disease. Patients are at risk of death in…
Continue ReadingCured of Sickle Cell Disease, His Next Challenge was Mt. Kilimanjaro
It is estimated that over six million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease plus millions of other people throughout the world. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia.…
Continue ReadingBlood Tests May be the Future for Early Alzheimer’s Detection
A recent article at BioPharma Dive outlines the findings of a study into Lexeo’s experimental gene therapy. The six participants in the recently conducted interim trial had enlarged hearts associated…
Continue ReadingSmall Study Finds Large Benefits for People With Friedreich’s Ataxia Heart Complications
Women who undergo allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) face significant treatment-related challenges regarding fertility. However, science seems to be overcoming many treatment-related fertility challenges after alloHCT and successful pregnancies are…
Continue ReadingStudy: 77% of Pregnancies Result in Live Births After Stem Cell Transplant
It is widely known that millions of individuals are living with diseases associated with chronic inflammation. In a recent interview with BioSpace, Alan Watt, President of NodThera, said the goal…
Continue ReadingThe Next Parkinson’s Frontier Could Be Preventing Neuroinflammation
Jenny, a 40-year-old nurse with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, began her solo voyage from Hawaii with her 6-pound Maltese dog named Romeo aboard in April 2023. She arrived in Fiji on or…
Continue Reading‘Just a Lap’ for CMT: Jenny Decker’s Sailing Journey Around the World
Researchers at Washington University’s medical school have used a new technique to study brain neurons in a lab setting, allowing them to bypass the need to rely on a brain…
Continue ReadingThe First Successful Attempt to Study Alzheimer’s Disease Using Lab-Derived Neurons
At Japan’s Fujita University, researchers reported to Inside Precision Medicine that a new risk measurement may add a layer of accuracy in predicting sudden cardiac death. The measure, called estimated…
Continue ReadingResearchers Identify Kidney Disease as a Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Factor
On July 11th Dr. Mathew Winton went to Capitol Hill with senators and staff from both parties to discuss collaboration with the FDA regarding the pending termination of the Priority…
Continue ReadingThe Urgency of Reauthorizing Rare Disease Priority Review Vouchers
The long-awaited positive results of Annexon Inc.’s Phase 3 trial investigating ANX005 for Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) was presented at the PNS 2024 Annual Meeting. Several leading global GBS experts spoke…
Continue ReadingPositive Results from the Phase 3 Trial of ANX005 in Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Recently there has been an increasing amount of research attempting to control CRISPR gene-editing systems. These systems are found in many types of bacteria as a defense against viruses. The…
Continue ReadingMore Compact CRISPR Protein Opens up Gene Therapy Options
Shanghai's Junshi Biosciences Co. (The Company) recently announced in Biospace, that its product, toripalimab (TUOYI®), combined with bevacizumab as a first-line therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), met its endpoints in a…
Continue ReadingToripalimab Combined with Bevacizumab Meets Primary Endpoint for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Ocugen, Inc., a biotechnology company based in Malvern, Pa. recently reported to BioSpace that DSMB gave a favorable review of its Phase ½ ArMaDa clinical study of OCU410. Approximately 10…
Continue ReadingGeographic Atrophy Trials Continue to Make Progress
Individuals who appear to have Long COVID may exhibit a variety of symptoms lasting weeks or even years. The latest estimates are that about 10-20% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2…
A team of scientists from Japan appear to have pioneered a method for reversing synapse damage in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. Although encouraging, the theory must be tested in…
Continue ReadingJapanese Scientists Reversed Signs of Alzheimer’s by Restoring Synapse Function in Mouse Model
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