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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Social media, and especially Facebook, have become our “windows to the world”. According to a recent article that appeared in The Michigan Public Health News Center, scientists are using…
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The blood-brain barrier is a “gatekeeper” that prevents toxins and foreign matter in the bloodstream from traveling to the brain. Check Orphan recently carried an article that had been…
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has funded a study by a company called Forty Seven, Inc. The clinical trial is investigating the benefits of a drug therapy for two cancers…
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Fifty years ago, the air base in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, was the world’s busiest airport. The base is now surrounded by four neighborhoods with about 111,000…
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Dr. Craig Klugman, a bioethics professor at DePaul University, expresses his opinion in this recent article in Columbia University’s Bioethics.com. Dr. Klugman begins with a discussion of Pfizer’s biological drug,…
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In the mid-1980s the FDA was criticized for being slow in approving new drugs. In fact, a commission was formed as a result of the mounting criticism. Janet Woodcock,…
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The FDA’s “untitled letter” to R3 Stem Cell (R3), based in Scottsdale Arizona, cautioned R3 that the product they are marketing is considered a drug. It must, therefore, be…
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Health News Digest recently published an article that describes a simple blood test called DELFI, meaning DNA evaluation of fragments for early interception. Its simplicity belies the fact that it can detect…
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The Hermstads of Spencer, Iowa lost Jaci’s twin to ALS and now they must watch Jaci, rapidly descend into the depths of the same disease. Jaci has a rare…
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Ron Davis and his gene-sequencing technologies were mentioned years ago in The Atlantic alongside Elon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame. Since then, Davis has amassed over…
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Calls to Ban CRISPR A scientist named He Jiankui recently shocked the scientific world with his announcement that he had created twin “CRISPR babies”. The babies, a result of…
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It has been nine years since Pfizer acquired the drugs vyndagel and vyndamax. According to a report in Biospace, based on the FDA’s recent approval of the two drugs to treat transthyretin-mediated…
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CRISPR-Cas9, the genome editing tool, has caused quite a stir in the scientific community. According to a recent article in Science Daily, with results published in Nature Communications, CRISPR has…
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Newly diagnosed patients may decide to either receive medical treatment or forego treatment based on the results of their diagnostic test. As recently reported in PEW, although it is…
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Although somewhat of an exaggeration, the title of this article falls in line with the thinking of Insitro’s founder, Daphne Koller. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Koller said that…
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The Asco Post recently interviewed Dr. Jean Pierre Bizzari, the Executive Vice President of Celgene, a multinational bioparmaceutical company. The interview covered various aspects of research and development (R&D)…
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Google’s Parent Company (Alphabet) Funds New Gene Editing Company An article recently published in MIT Review reports that Verve Therapeutics announced that it has received funding from Alphabet’s GV venture fund plus…
Google Backs Startup For Treating Heart Disease Via CRISPR Injections May 16, 2019 --Sharing is Caring-- Google Backs Startup For Treating Heart Disease Via CRISPR Injections Once in our life…
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An estimated thirty million people in the U.S. are affected by chronic kidney disease. That translates into one out of three adults who are at risk. The majority, however,…
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China’s attempt to stem the tide of drug addiction through brain surgery has been problematic. Yet a recent article in the Himalayan Times reports that six of the eight…
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Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars on Alzheimer’s research. The target has been the toxic protein, amyloid-beta. According to a recent article in NPR News, this theory was…
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A recent article in the neuroscience section of the Medical Express reports the results of a study conducted by researchers in the Charcot-Marie-Tooth/Hereditary Neuropathy Center at internationally acclaimed Cedars-Sinai.…
Three stories of courage are highlighted in Orlando Family Magazine’s annual tribute to the medical community. The first example relates to a mother, Eva, for her courage in opting…
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It has been less than two years since Cytokinetics’ previous ALS muscle drug, tirasemtiv, failed to meet its endpoint in a Phase III trial to treat ALS. (That was after…
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A recent article in CBC News describes the heartbreak and struggle of a Canadian couple appealing to the Canadian government to fund medication for their younger son. Both their children, Andre…
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