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.
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Marten Devlieger’s sister Karen, a cystic fibrosis patient, died of the disease at the age of thirty-three. According to a recent article in CTV News Canada, Marten was also diagnosed…
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About one to three million people in the United States are living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The disease affects one in one hundred teens and is more common…
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An article by Dr. Syavra Tipirneni, dermatologist, recently appeared in BioSpectrum News. Dr. Tipirneni points out that we often succumb to our desire for perfect skin without the realization…
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Stéphanie Tomé is an investigator at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. A recent article in PacBio describes Tomé’s research into a disease that becomes progressively worse with each generation.…
LETHBRIDGE — A Taber, Alta., man is calling on government to take action and help grant Canadians with cystic fibrosis better access to breakthrough treatments. Marten Devlieger was diagnosed with…
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A Colombian family with more than six thousand living family members was the focus of researchers at several institutes in the U.S. and Columbia. According to an article published by…
Doctor Leah Kaminsky discusses a new era in healthcare in her recent article that offers hope through new technology. How Can AI Help? AI will be able to predict changes to…
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A recent article in the Washington Post tells the story of a newly-approved cystic fibrosis drug that represents thirty years of scientific work and dedication. The defective gene that causes cystic…
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The concept of N-of-1, or personalization of clinical care, originated in the 1980s according to an article in The Scientist. It began with a sixty-five-year-old Ontario man who was…
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490 words 8% vs 1306 words 3% According to a recent Globe Newswire release, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, an oncology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and targeted therapies, announced results for its Phase…
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According to a recent article in Biospace, Catalyst Pharmaceutical’s CMS-001 Phase 3 study ended with mixed results. The trial was billed as the first placebo-controlled double-blind study testing amifampridine phosphate (brand…
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A recent announcement by Atomico, one of Europe’s largest venture capital firms based in London, introduced its new partner Healx. The startup can boast of having the world’s most comprehensive…
A recent article published in Cancer Research UK informs readers that in two out of every one hundred cancers, doctors cannot find the original tumor. It is this primary tumor…
Results of a study reported in PLOS ONE that was conducted by a team of scientists indicate that the experimental drug mavoglurant improves responsiveness and eye gaze for patients with…
Actus Therapeutics, a privately held portfolio company of AskBio, has recently announced through PRWeb, the initiation of patient dosing in a clinical trial testing its investigational gene therapy ACTUS-101. About Pompe…
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Over the years Alzheimer’s patients and their families have seen more than one hundred twenty drugs that were developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's have failed. For a while,…
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A guest speaker at the 2019 Rare Disease Forum recently held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center acknowledged that screening is necessary to justify the need for a particular…
CNN recently covered a story in the publication Nature about a paper explaining base editing (or prime editing). The researchers who created the technology set forth the process of using base…
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According to a recent article in Horizon, the World Health Organization estimates that every one couple out of ten is dealing with fertility issues. The long-held assumption has been…
A recent article in Medical Life Science News reports that a recent study has discovered a new mechanism that interacts with an immune cell receptor called Mincle. This receptor regulates…
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A recent article in the Science Daily reports on a study that demonstrated in detail how the human immune system located in the brain is altered during certain diseases such…
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Scientists believe that “it is in our DNA.” According to a recent article in EurekAlert, a five-year study formulated through Open Targets together with the Sanger Institute and their…
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Lately, there have been many newsworthy articles about Novartis and Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-xioi). In May 2019 the FDA approved Zolgensma, a one-time treatment for the most severe form of…
Jessica Walton described the staff at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn as being in “a bit of a panic” when they thought that she was having a stroke.…
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A recent article in Forbes highlights a study on diagnostic performance published in The Lancet Digital Health. The study represents the first review to compare the diagnostic accuracy of deep…
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