Despite New Rules, Extreme Costs Make Hospitals Balk at Offering the Latest and Greatest Therapies
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Despite New Rules, Extreme Costs Make Hospitals Balk at Offering the Latest and Greatest Therapies

According to a story from statnews.com, new, groundbreaking forms of treatment, such as gene therapy and CAR-T cell therapy, are giving patients with rare genetic disorders and advanced cancers more…

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IWMF and PleXus Communications are Teaming up to Help Spread Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Awareness
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IWMF and PleXus Communications are Teaming up to Help Spread Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Awareness

The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation (IWMF) has recently announced an exciting new partnership that will help facilitate spreading awareness about Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare form of blood cancer. This…

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Large Scale Trial Aims to Test Precision Medicines Based on Genomic Profiling in a Variety of Cancers
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Large Scale Trial Aims to Test Precision Medicines Based on Genomic Profiling in a Variety of Cancers

According to a story from Newswise, Quest Diagnostics, a laboratory that specializes in diagnostic information, has announced plans to participate in a unique, large scale trial called NCI-MATCH, which stands…

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Collaboration Between C-Path and NORD will Help Standardize Data and Accelerate Research for Rare Diseases

Critical Path Institute The Critical Path Institute, or C-Path is a nonprofit organization which was established in 2005. It has a US branch, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona as well as…

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Results From First Patient Treated in Epidermolysis Bullosa Phase 2 Trial are Extremely Promising

Epidermolysis Bullosa Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare condition affecting approximately 500,000 individuals globally. Patients in the United States and Europe account for 50,000 of these individuals. The hereditary condition is…

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Company Cleared to Begin Trials for Experimental Retinitis Pigmentosa Drug

According to a story from globenewswire.com, the drug developer ProQR Therapeutics N.V. has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially cleared the company's Investigational New…

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First Patient Enrolls for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Proof-of-Concept Study
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First Patient Enrolls for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Proof-of-Concept Study

According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Immunic, Inc. has announced that the first patient has signed up for its proof-of-concept clinical study. This study is intended to…

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The FDA Will Allow the Most Expensive Therapy in the World to Remain on the Market

The headline in a recent Washington Post article declared that the FDA claimed Novartis, through its newly-acquired company AveXis, manipulated data in an application for a gene therapy drug. These…

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As the Rate of Ulcerative Colitis Diagnoses Grows, its Clear More Research is Needed

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is actually a term used to classify a few different conditions. Two of these are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.  These are rare…

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Making History: First Patient in Connecticut Receives Spinal Muscular Atrophy Gene Therapy

According to a story from Connecticut Children's, the hospital is one of the very first in the country to administer Zolgensma, a recently approved gene therapy for the rare genetic…

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FDA Approves an Experimental Treatment of Various Blood Malignancies for Clinical Trials

According to a story from First World Pharma, the biopharmaceutical company Mustang Bio, Inc. recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved their investigational new drug…

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