As originally shared in Tech Startups, an Israeli biotech company called Pluristem has created a placenta-based cell therapy to treat patients with COVID-19. So far, the therapy, which uses PLacental…
According to a story from PR Newswire, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) has just recently kicked off a COVID-19 Critical Relief Program. In alignment with its mission to…
Uncertain times may be the understatement of the year so far. When the news of COVID-19 (coronavirus) caught our attention, there were a lot of people frozen in disbelief and…
As reported in CCAKids Blog, 2020's contagion has imposed a strange new set of rules and precautions for leaving the house. The latest CDC recommendation has told all of America…
According to CNBC, there is a shortage across the country of a very important medication: hydroxychloroquine. This is somewhat unsurprising. After all, the Trump administration has been vocal about the…
According to Business Insider, cases of COVID-19 and deaths attributed to it are rising rapidly. The pandemic was officially declared on March 10th, just about one month ago. At the…
According to a story from Porphyria News, Lucia Monaco, PhD, is the chair of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC). Despite the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic,…
According to a story from Spectrum News, the Andrews family has been dealing with a rare disease called Niemann-Pick disease type C for years. Parents Pam and Chris knew early…
According to Oren Goldshtein, CEO of Vectorious Medical Technologies, remote patient monitoring is needed now more important than ever. Nobody knows how long the COVID-19 pandemic will last or…
According to a story from Wexford People, 8-year-old Mia-Lily Ruttle wants to spread some hope to people around the globe. The girl, who has neurofibromatosis, was upset by the impact…
Social Distancing Social distancing has been coined as the most surefire way to stop the spread of COVID-19 across the American populace. What is this phrase used to refer to?…
No one was given a prep course on how to handle quarantine, especially not with kids. Here are some suggestions to help you get through these unique times, while making…
As Patient Worthy readers, we hope you and your families are doing well during this challenging time. The health and safety of our rare community is always at the…
According to BioSpace, an experimental drug designed to treat cancer and HIV may also be poised to treat patients with COVID-19. The drug, called leronlimab, was created by biotechnology…
According to a story from People's Pharmacy, a dizzying array of advice related to minimizing spread or coronavirus/COVID-19 has barraged our senses over the last few weeks as the number…
As sourced from QZ, trials for new medications are notoriously tedious. Rare disease populations know more than most that the barriers to meeting the entry criteria of a trial can…
Every day on the news we hear the pleas for more medical masks for doctors and nurses, more personal protective equipment, and more ventilators. We all know what masks are,…
According to a story from gurufocus.com, the biotechnology company Capricor Therapeutics has recently announced the initiation of a compassionate use program for its experimental drug CAP-1002. This drug will be…
April is designated as Sarcoidosis Awareness Month. This year's event will be the sixth annual awareness campaign, which will involve collaboration between the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research and the American…
Michael and Armené Kapamajian were at home in Los Angeles settling in with their one week old baby, Sasoun, when their doctor called and asked them to come in…
What is Repurposing? Repurposing involves testing whether or not a compound approved of another condition may be capable of also treating an illness with no approved treatment option. It's advantageous,…
According to a story from Vox, while the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health authorities have reported the primary symptoms of coronavirus/COVID-19 to be a dry…
Emily Knakmuhs's two-and-a-half-year-old Kennedie had just made it past a tough couple of years. When she was born, her family noticed she wasn't growing, but her pediatrician attributed it to…
On March 24th, 2020, Patient Worthy released a story announcing the formation of a Coronavirus Emergency fund by the American Kidney Fund (AKF). The goal of this fund is to…
According to a story from People's Pharmacy, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams recently stated in a tweet that regular citizens should stop buying face masks because they are not useful…
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