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.
Studies show that there is a relationship between illness or death (morbidity or mortality), scleroderma renal crisis (SRC), and a person’s race. A study using data from the U.S. Military…
Dr. Yi Xiao, oncology instructor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and his associates discovered a unique role for antihistamines while searching for factors that may influence responses to immunotherapy. As…
Targeted Oncology recently published a report citing a promising class of drugs to treat recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC), often associated with a poor prognosis. PROC eventually occurs to a…
At first, Dr. Rebecca Elon began to notice her husband’s personality changes and an occasional lapse in judgment. These incidents occurred in 2013. Although Dr. Elon’s husband, William Adler III…
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…
A recent article in Science Daily reports that researchers at the Copenhagen and Lund Universities, using animal models, killed bacterial meningitis without the use of antibiotics. Estimates from the WHO…
According to a recent article published in Science Daily, twenty years of research is being challenged by a team of Cambridge University scientists. The new findings of the team of…
When we are injured, new cells flow to the injury site and replace the body’s damaged cells. This process is called “cell migration.” According to a recent article in Science…
A recent article in Medical Life Sciences alerts physicians to be aware of a deadly skin cancer. It is called cytotoxic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). According to an article in…
Jon Aquino, a thirty-seven-year-old nurse, and his family were on vacation in New Jersey last August when he became seriously ill. Jon was immediately rushed to a Camden, New Jersey…
A new approach to evaluating the value and efficacy of treatment was developed by associate professor Meredith Regan ScD of Harvard’s Medical School and Dana Farber Institute. A recent article…
Kaelyn Franco was an experienced athlete by the time she entered college, and a friend recommended taking a spin class. According to an article in Yahoo, 23-year-old Kaelyn took her…
CRISPR Cas9 gene editing is still looked upon as a new phenomenon in medicine. Yet it appears in the news almost every week. This week Neurology Today shines a light…
According to a recent study by the investigative staff at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, there is a direct correlation between the ethnicity or race of the site personnel and…
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a rare type of cancer with its origin (pathogenesis) found in white blood cells (T lymphocytes). The disease is incurable and debilitating. A recent article…
Jeffrey Miner, Ph.D., Director of Basic Research in Washington University’s Division of Nephrology, has received a $2.25M five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney…
When you are looking for new treatments that will either stop or slow the development of Alzheimer’s disease, where would you look? According to a recent article in Gladstone…
CRISPR is a gene-editing technique that has revolutionized the medical world with its approach to making precise changes in DNA. CRISPR found its match in 35-year-old Victoria Gray of…
Dr. Farah Naz Khan’s recent article for GoodRx Health attempts to explain the difference between Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism. The terms are used interchangeably but Dr. Khan’s article explains…
The Times Now News recently featured an article that highlighted a study by a group of NYU Langone scientists. The study paper was published October 6th, 2021 in 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 Biospace, Eisai Pharmaceutical and Biogen Biotechnology recently announced updates to their Phase IIB study 201 and a five-year open-label extension (OLE) studies using lecanemab…
Platinum-based chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for patients with metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma for over ten years. According to a recent article in Healio, the median survival is about nine…
On October 27, 2021, PR Newswire highlighted an article about a unique patient-led analysis that was conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, and Brussels, Belgium by people living with myasthenia gravis (MG).…
Casey Martin is well known as the golfer who sued the PGA in 2001 and won a landmark 7-2 Supreme Court decision. According to a report by ESPN, with the…
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