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.
Lindy Thrackston, a FOX59 news anchor in Indianapolis and emcee for the Indiana Pacers, interviewed recently with ON TODAY. She says that her cancer was caught in time but…
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), The Web of Science Edition, herein reports a case first recognized in a two-day-old newborn with a decreased red reflex in her right eye. 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…
According to a recent article in the Nursing Center of the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (TC) is a rare syndrome that mimics ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This…
According to a recent article published in the Dove Medical Press of Manchester, UK, intestinal failure centers are receiving an increasing number of adults presenting with gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility. Dysmotility…
According to a recent article in USA Today, the decades-old vision of gene therapy has become a reality for a Danish couple. Thomas Felborg, his wife Daria Rokina brought…
According to an article in Biospace, Biogen, a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presented new data on its multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies at the virtual Meeting of the American…
Veterinary ophthalmologists at Pennsylvania’s Veterinarian School of Medicine found that LCA in humans mimics the same type of disease in dogs. According to a recent article in Science Daily, vision…
Professional musicians generally practice several hours every day, but that does not hold true for Reece Jacob, age 29, from Manchester. UK’s Daily Mail recently carried an article about Reece…
A recent article in Cancer Network announced that motixafortide met its primary endpoint in the GENESIS trial for multiple myeloma patients who were scheduled for stem cell transplantation. Often, the…
According to a recent article in Parkinson’s News Today, Dr. Per Borghammer, Research Professor at Denmark’s Aarhus University, proposed a new model that has the potential to identify early Parkinson’s…
According to a recent article in MedicalXpress, researchers at Houston Methodist have reported acute transverse myelitis (ATM) in forty-three COVID-19 patients across twenty-one countries. Spinal cord lesions developed in these…
Most cancers are inflamed (hot tumors) and under the right conditions can be controlled by T-cells. According to a recent article in Genetic Engineering and Biology News, there is another…
Is it or was it COVID? That is the question doctors and parents are asking as the number of children admitted to the hospital for a rare pediatric inflammatory…
British researchers recently conducted a study of 235,379 COVID-19 survivors over a six-month period after they survived their initial infection. The researchers discovered that one out of three patients…
In the last decade, scientists have made great strides in uncovering details of the underlying causes of neurodegenerative diseases. It is only a matter of time that treatment and prevention…
Solna Braude describes her brother’s struggle with neurological disorders in her interview with Cure PSP. Her brother, Laurence, was no stranger to the medical world. He was a surgeon, cornea…
William Frackrell’s desire to serve his country was born out of his years as a boy scout and his military career. Then, according to a FOX 13 exclusive with William’s…
The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine was welcomed as the third alternative to Moderna and Pfizer vaccines but with even more perks. It was a one-time shot that used “viral…
Alarming details of Katy Grainger’s sepsis infection were covered in the April 2021 issue of Women’s Magazine. The interview took place over two years after Katy lost both feet and…
In a recent interview with CNN, Dan Schoenthal, a retired 56-year-old police officer of Great Valley, New York, explained that in 2015 he received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.…
Prime editing, a new entry in gene-editing technology, is said to be an extension of the “genetic toolbox.” According to a recent article in Science Daily, prime editing designs…
It is now commonplace for patients to find that a drug such as prednisone, usually prescribed for relief of allergic and rheumatic symptoms, is also prescribed to treat leukemia. According…
Researchers have been able to identify similarities in outcomes between colorectal liver metastases that cannot be completely removed by surgery (unresectable) and patients with the KRAS mutation. Surgical resection…
CNN Newsource ran a special report about five-year-old Emmett Monaco of Beaverton, Oregon who is fighting to stay alive, but his body is slowly failing him. Emmett was diagnosed with…
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