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.
Over ten years ago two Nobel-Prize-winning biologists, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, discovered a technology called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). Bacteria contain genetic sequences repeated throughout…
According to an article published in EuroNews, the National Cancer Institute has announced that MIT researchers have developed a device that can locate cancer cells during urine tests. The device…
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 recent article in Parkinson’s News Today announced that a new study indicates that high blood pressure has been associated with Parkinson’s disease in Singapore’s Han population. This is…
To the vaccinated, it may feel like the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over, but a convergence of the Delta variant, rising long COVID cases, a higher number of breakthrough…
As reported recently in Medscape, forty-eight patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), were identified by way of the DM-Scope registry, which is the largest collection of data for the DM population. 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 Genetic Engineering News, findings by scientists at the University of Boston’s School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have uncovered two plausible…
The symptoms of terminal pancreatic cancer are subtle. The disease is usually not diagnosed until it has substantially progressed, leaving a dismal five-year overall survival of five to ten percent.…
The primary cause of death in melanoma patients is widespread metastases. Currently, there is no cure in cases of relapse or in advanced stages. A recent article in Science…
Following several Patient Worthy articles on the subject earlier this year, Fierce Biotech recently published news that Biogen is preparing to release the Phase III VALOR trial drug, tofersen,…
The name of the organization is Disease InfoSearch. It is not only a resource for credible information but guides patients and families to valuable support groups and participation in…
This question is what the doctors at Massachusetts’ Cambridge Hospital were trying to determine. According to a recent article in the New York Times, a twenty-two-year-old man was rushed to…
The patient sitting in front of this physician was later diagnosed with severe chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME/CFS). But for now, the patient had to endure humiliation…
The Hindustan Times recently published an article that again puts CRISPR at the forefront of medical news. The newest CRISPR tool was designed to identify Sars-CoV-2 and prevent the transmission…
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…
According to an article in NCBI’s Drug In Context, it took the combined services of the internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry departments to diagnose this rare disease. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis…
Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have discovered the code that is associated with the liver’s genome (complete set of DNA) and its ability to regenerate. According to a…
Beijing, China: According to an article in a sister publication of Sixth Tone, a woman living in China who has been treated during the past fourteen years for paroxysmal nocturnal…
Having thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), a medical condition characterized by the compression of nerves and blood vessels, can hinder a person’s productivity and ability to hold active professions and lifestyles.…
Thanks to advances in immunotherapy, liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma-HCC) has seen a rise in treatment options for patients in advanced stages of the disease. HCC is one of the…
The answer lies in the loss of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) calcium and protein which leads to cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, viral, and neurodegenerative diseases. ER performs many important cellular functions including…
Claire Richmond can be considered a very experienced patient. It took Claire nineteen years to receive a diagnosis for her rare disease. During that time, she had been dismissed…
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…
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR), according to NCBI, are sequences that replicate and infect bacterial cells. CRISPR has been in the news recently, but this time it has…
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