The devices are available for patients aged 17 years and older at no extra cost and can be used after receiving training from a healthcare professional. Two new medical devices that will facilitate ...

POEMS syndrome remains a diagnostic challenge due to its variable presentation and overlap with other demyelinating neuropathies, such as CIDP. Cases of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, ...

Diagnostic performance for key IPF hallmarks, including honeycombing, reticulation, and basal predominance, was consistently high. Ultrashort echo time magnetic resonance imaging (UTE-MRI) accurately ...

Diagnosis of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) requires a combination of clinical assessment, genetic testing, and imaging studies. 1 NF1 is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the development of ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare acquired autoimmune neurological disorder in which both T-cell-mediated and humoral immune mechanisms target healthy myelinated ...

Exondys 51 (eteplirsen) is used to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who have a confirmed mutation in the dystrophin gene that can be treated by skipping exon 51. Exondys 51 was ...

Cells treated with ibrutinib and acalabrutinib each had a unique set of 13 m/z signals, which opens up the possibility of studying these metabolites as biomarkers of therapeutic response. Ibrutinib ...

Taylor Kane is executive director of Remember the Girls, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of females with X-linked disorders (Photo courtesy of Taylor Kane) New Jersey native Taylor Kane ...

In terms of glucocorticoid remission, the rituximab cohort achieved better results (52.1%) compared with the intravenous cyclophosphamide group (30.9%). Rituximab was found to be significantly ...

A new phase 2 clinical trial to test the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of TAK-411 for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is now open. The open-label, ...

Gastrointestinal involvement in systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a common complication and often leads to endoscopic findings. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are the second most frequent clinical ...

Of the 33,829 blood donors analyzed, only 179 were D negative (0.53%). This finding complements existing studies on the relative rarity of this blood type in Asia. Among East and Southeast Asian ...