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.
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…
It is believed that in 1916 a German doctor named Brachmann first identified a patient with symptoms of a disease later known as Cornelia de Lange syndrome. Then in…
A recent article in Labroots stated that the majority of patients who have preleukemic disorders may not be candidates for leukemia. Estimates are that there are about ten to fifteen…
Aeterna Zentaris’s ongoing DETECT trial is evaluating the drug macimorelin (tradename Macrilen™) for childhood-onset growth hormone deficiency (CGHD). As recently announced in an article published by GlobeNewsWire, the study (AEZS-130-PO2),…
Imagine the highs and lows that accompany the doctor’s announcement that your sweet, innocent two-year-old daughter has leukemia. The good news is that your daughter has the type of leukemia…
As featured recently in the Cancer Therapy Advisor, a study has been conducted on patients diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), who also have elevated inflammation, and sarcopenia. The…
Al Lupiano, an environmental scientist, recently spoke with Meg Baker of CBS2. Al told her that twenty years ago, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The memory and…
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…
According to a recent article in Genetic Engineering and Biology News, Washington University and University of Hawaii researchers have uncovered a possible drug development candidate in soil bacterium called…
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