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.
According to a recent article featured in News5Cleveland.com, there are over seven thousand rare diseases worldwide that affect over thirty million people in the United States. Several days ago, patients…
When a patient is told that they have a life-threatening rare disease and then told that there is no cure, every effort is made to attend to their physical needs.…
The Orange County Guide features doctors’ articles in each issue. Dr. Justin West’s search to cure his son’s rare disease will be familiar to families also in search of…
Crispr is no longer a buzzword. According to a recent article in The Guardian, it has become the ‘molecular scissors’ that will enable scientists to rewrite our genes or as often said,…
During a recent WZDX News interview with Dr. David Bick, HudsonAlpha Faculty Investigator Dr. Bick stated that in Alabama alone, there are approximately four hundred thousand people with rare diseases.…
Billions of dollars have been spent in research over decades, resulting in only two therapies that treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). There are no approved methods that diminish the…
Research by scientists at Cornell University and Weill Cornell centered around the endothelial cells that form a barrier between tissues and vessels. They control the flow of fluid and substances…
Policymakers Must Offer Solutions That Provide Patients with Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs For Critical Medicine In addition to coping with chronic illness, many patients are faced with the challenge of…
Dr. Oliver Dorigo of the Stanford University Medical Center was the medical source for an article featured in Oncology. Dr. Dorigo explained that if a woman with ovarian cancer has…
Scientists are researching Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from all angles and gradually closing in on the cause of the disease. According to an article in Neuroscience News, a discovery by researchers…
Hundreds of mutations have been connected to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and a new study finds further evidence that suggests a possible cause of this spectrum of conditions Neuroscience News…
The COVID pandemic affecting eighty-million children in the nation has been a burden on many families. A number that deserves attention is the seven million students who have learning disabilities.…
Improving cognition and identifying abnormal molecular pathways in Alzheimer’s disease has been challenging. Current studies of Alzheimer’s disease have focused on reducing such occurrences as amyloid plaque, neuroinflammation, and neurofibrillary…
The NZ Herald recently published details about the experience of seven-year-old Logan Walsh of Leeds, England. His mother was told to take Logan home after he had been diagnosed with…
Tara Johnston, a resident of London, England is now twenty years old but still coping with severe acne. Tara interviewed with MyLondon in an effort to raise awareness and share…
Dr. Andrew Brunner, an oncologist at Massachusetts Cancer Center was recently interviewed by Targeted Oncology. The discussion centered around a phase 1b clinical trial (NCT03066648) investigating sabatolimab together with hypomethylating…
Toxoplasmosis is transmitted by Toxoplasma gondii, the protozoan parasite which is known to be among the most common parasites worldwide. The infection occurs from contaminated meat, cat feces that…
A team of German Scientists is offering hope for people who have sports, traffic, or war-related injuries of the spinal cord. According to a recent article in Neuroscience News, these…
Parkinson’s News Today recently featured an upbeat article describing the progress that researchers have made in developing a method of measuring alpha-synuclein’s (AS) progression that cuts discovery time in…
There are many common elements in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which is the most common type of dementia. It is now evident that there are varied spans of disease progression…
Although advances in lung cancer care were overshadowed this year by news about the pandemic, Dr. Jennifer Carlisle’s recent interview with Oncology gave details of spectacular advances in lung cancer…
Sorafenib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been unbeatable for treating cancer of the liver for the past thirteen years. An article by the Cleveland Clinic stated that during that time,…
Over the past decade, scientists have made many life-saving advances in all areas of medicine. They have created molecular agents to target neurodegenerative diseases. But they were stopped right there…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine noted that osteonecrosis (ON) is one of the more serious complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). According to a recent article in…
The medical community has been aware for some time now that patient involvement in his or her treatment is a critical part of therapeutic development. Biopharmaceutical companies acknowledge their obligation…
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