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.
Lately, the first thing that enters a person’s mind if they encounter an unusual pain is that they may have cancer. Yet that was the last thing Georgina Masson, an…
Sydney Miller, born in the UK in March 2020, has an extremely rare disease. Newsweek recently carried a story about Sydney and her illness. This little girl captured the hearts…
Leukemia, in general terms, is a form of cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood cells. According an article in Medical News Today, leukemia is categorized in accordance…
The Irish Times recently featured a book by Dr. Karl Herrup about “How Not to Study a Disease." Dr. Herrup is clear that he opposes the theory that the amyloid…
Medscape recently published an article stating that the EMA is conducting a review of rucaparib, a drug used to treat patients with a range of ovarian cancers that have relapsed. These…
Data based on approximately five million people suggests that esophageal cancer has nearly doubled from 2012 through 2019. According to a recent report in MSN, the incidence of precancerous Barrett’s…
On January 9th, Jacob Wiley was preparing to see his three-year-old daughter Adelaide in the hospital. It was a day that Jacob and his wife Ashley will never forget.…
EDIT-301 is an investigational, gene editing medicine developed by Editas Medicine for the treatment of beta thalassemia. As recently reported in the Business Insider, EDIT-301 has just been granted the…
Compassion [kuhm-pash-uhn] noun A feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. Compassion Corner is a…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID Director, and his colleagues have suggested the possible use of a promising new vaccine for people at high risk of contracting a rare, deadly mosquito-borne virus.…
Mandy Maysey is a 49-year-old mum living in Australia with her three children, who are all coping with an unpredictable disorder. Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder involving repetitive…
Patients are advised to look for and report symptoms of a mysterious liver disease that has recently caused the death of three Indonesian children. Newsmax’s most up-to-date reports state that…
Tourette Syndrome affects one million Americans. 2022 is the Tourette Association of America's 50th Anniversary, and to celebrate, you can get involved in Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month from May 15th…
Many in the medical profession believed that the road to rapid recovery in myalgic encephalomyelitis was through exercise. Eighty-two-year-old Veronica Jones of Gloucestershire, UK believes that the advice given…
The new FDA-approved oral formulation of Radicava ORS (edaravone) is more convenient than the intravenous formulation, yet the efficacy and composition remain the same. The oral formulation may also be…
Sophie had a wish, and this month her mother is going to parliament to fulfill that wish. Sophie’s death has brought about the first House of Commons debate on childhood…
The WHO’s Emergency Response System Has Been Activated. Just last month, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative assured VICE World News that the WHO is taking this global outbreak very…
When a patient or caregiver speaks of immunotherapy it is often with a more confident tone than when they are speaking about chemotherapy. However, the odds of a patient going…
ITP, or immune thrombocytopenia, is a platelet disorder where the immune system destroys its own platelets by way of destructive antibodies. Platelets are very small blood cells that originate in…
Imagine the feeling of working for years with the goal of saving children who have congenital athymia. Then thirty years later the FDA approves a regenerative medicine based on your…
Alzheimer’s disease is the primary cause of the progressive decline of cognitive function in the elderly. It is characterized by underlying complications in the central nervous system (CNS). To date,…
The joy of watching your child grow and meet developmental milestones is not always granted to some parents. Clare’s mother, Allison, described her emotions to CHOP after noticing that Clare…
For over thirty years, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (UPMC) have been observing cases of limited scleroderma, a connective tissue disorder that causes thick hard patches of skin. Scleroderma…
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) brings a serious meaning to a commonly-used phrase: ‘My big toe.’ According to a recent article in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, FOP is an…
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