Happy Friday, everyone! We hope everyone's drinking water, wearing sunscreen, and taking a little time to relax this summer. As we get ready for the weekend, we've gathered four recent…
According to a story from bioportfolio.com, two companies, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and its affiliate Akcea Pharmaceuticals, recently announced that its product inotersen (to be marketed as TEGSEDI) has gained approval…
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced plans for a Phase 3 clinical trial called Polaris DMD. It will investigate the experimental drug edasalonexent for the treatment of patients with Duchenne muscular…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Acceleron Pharma, which develops TGF-beta based treatments for rare and serious illnesses, recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
According to a story from NPR, plastic straw bans have been gaining traction across the U.S. One of the most shocking examples of planetary degradation as the result of human…
According to a story from the Globe and Mail, Michelle Quinlan was overwhelmed when her child Avery was diagnosed with Coffin-Siris syndrome, a rare genetic disease that can cause intellectual…
New pig models of Huntington’s disease have been developed, and they are expected to have several benefits compared to existing rodent models of the condition. Read the source article here…
According to Medical Xpress, gene therapy may become the next treatment option for those with chronic kidney disease, CKD. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have…
Kalytera Therapeutics, Inc. has announced that a meeting with the Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research of the US FDA is planned for Tuesday, 31st July this year. The purpose of…
According to a story published by STAT, a daredevil neuroscientist at Stanford University is utilizing the relatively new concept of virtual reality to solve an unsuspecting problem. Not only is…
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. has announced that it has secured its second U.S. manufacturing location for NurOwn®, an experimental drug currently under investigation for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
According to an article from the Detroit News, the most recent budget proposal from the Trump administration would call for cuts to Medicare to the tune of $236 billion over…
Organisations are planning to develop new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand disease. The original article can be read here, at PR Newswire (whose source…
According to BioPortfolio, the company UniQure has recently announced that the first hemophilia B patient has been enrolled in their Phase III study of the treatment AMT-061, which is an…
According to Medical Xpress, Chris Jones from the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK has delved into the complexities of the rare childhood brain tumors called diffuse intrinsic pontine…
Cleveland Clinic’s first every three-way kidney transplant has taken place. It involved six people in total: three donors and three recipients. The full article can be read here, at the…
For any John Oliver fans out there, you know his thing is deep-diving into topics of importance - from beauty pageants to international elections to failing American infrastructure - just…
Happy Independence Day Weekend! As the firework shows wind down, we want to wrap up the week with three great contributor stories, and one research update. First, we have some…
Dewayne Johnson used to work as a school groundskeeper. Now, some days, he can’t manage to speak as a result of the cancer he lives with. Now, despite professional expectations…
According to The Seattle Times, the prognosis of a certain four-drug combination is much greater for patients with pancreatic cancer than the typical single standard cancer treatment. This discovery is…
According to University of Wisconsin News, UW-Madison professor David Beebe and his colleague Anna Huttenlocher, fellow UW professor, were awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
According to a story from the Vancouver Sun, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. recently issued new requirements in regards to the usage of opioids for treating patients…
According to a story from Global Knock, a woman with spina bifida died after a severe bedsore on her back became infected. Chrissy Dunnington was in long term care at…
According to Phys.org, a group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina recently discovered exciting news regarding cancer cells in humans. Specifically, these scientists have found that these…
According to NBC News, pediatric cancer rates are at the highest numbers in Northeast America. The government cancer map data also shows that the lowest rates of childhood cancer are…
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