According to a story from philly.com, four year old Ethan Lieber of the Roxborough neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of just 500 people in the US with Hunter syndrome. This…
According to a story from the FH Foundation, the non-profit organization has released a vital consensus statement regarding the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia, which is the most prevalent genetic cause…
According to a story from WebMD, a recent study concludes that the rates of diagnosis for thyroid cancer have been steadily increasing recently, and that it is over treated in…
According to a story from cbc.ca, Cole Pringle is a 31-year-old man from Regina, Saskatchewan with spinal muscular atrophy, a debilitating illness that severely affects his mobility. He was diagnosed…
According to a story from The Sun, Alex was just two months old when he first experienced symptoms of xeroderma pigmentosum. His parents took him out to the park and…
Treatments for neurological diseases have been developing rapidly in the modern era. Despite the development of new medicines and therapeutic techniques for many conditions, no cure has been found for…
According to a story from rdmag.com, researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered a critical mechanism that helps facilitate the normal DNA repair process. This mechanism could have implications…
According to an article published on BioPortfolio, a charitable foundation known as The Assistance Fund recently began a program to assist with the medical costs of hemophilia. The Assistance Fund…
According to a story from KVIA, the University Medical Center at El Paso, Texas, is offering an innovative "hot" chemotherapy treatment that has the potential to treat a variety of…
According to a story from the Sydney Morning Herald, Hayley Wyatt appeared to be calling for her mother in her final moments, but there was nothing anyone in her family…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the company Progenic Pharmaceuticals recently reported the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the company's product iobenguane I 131 (AZEDRA). This…
According to a story from MIT Technology Review, it was 2011 when Sonia Vallabh received the results of a genetic test that showed that she had the genetic mutation responsible…
According to a story from the Sydney Morning Herald, Maxwell Hayes thought that is cancer was gone after an eight year period of remission. Then, his mantle cell lymphoma returned.…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Chiasma, Inc., recently announced that it has completed the enrollment of 135 patients for its Phase 3 clinical trial. This trial…
There’s good news coming out of MIT this week. In an article on Medical Xpress, new findings are coming out using CRISPR, a tool that is known for its ability…
The US Food and Drug Administration has awarded Orphan Drug Designation to the drug lenabasum as a treatment for dermatomyositis. The use of lenabasum for treating this condition, and others,…
According to a story from Medical Xpress, a long term study testing a treatment for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) has recently concluded. The treatment in question is a…
As vice chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ‘s (NCCN) committee on multiple myeloma, Dr. Natalie Callander helps to set guidelines for effective evaluation and treatment. The NCCN commonly…
According to a story from the Los Angeles Daily News, for children with debilitating rare illnesses like cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or muscular dystrophy, it can often take a long time…
According to a story from pm360online.com, the company PledPharma recently announced that its drug candidate Aladote has completed its first safety evaluation with a positive result. Aladote is in development…
According to a story from healthline.com, many cancer survivors that have been treated with chemotherapy wind up facing significant challenges after their treatment. One such example is a phenomenon known…
According to Medical Xpress, Professor and Doctor Joseph Wu is looking into the complications of DNA testing and genetic mutations. Specifically, the confusion of gene mutations that are labeled "variants…
According to a story from news.com.au, patients in Western Australia will start getting much cheaper access to a highly valuable treatment next month for a rare form of cancer called…
A drug to treat prostate cancer has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The drug, Xtandi ® (enzalutamide), had previously been approved for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)…
According to a story from Reuters, the drug development company Zogenix, Inc. has announced in a recent statement that its investigational drug for the treatment of a rare type of…
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