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Once used to diagnose myocardial infarction, technetium-99m pyrophosphate (Tc 99m PYP) imaging may be reborn as an alternative to biopsy for diagnosing cardiac…
Every medical case, to paraphrase the writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, is lived twice: once in the wards and once in memory. Some of what follows is still intensely vivid…
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) has been one of the greatest growth stories in the ultra-rare disease space over the past decade, with their blockbuster C5 inhibitor…
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) believe a novel multidisciplinary approach to patient care, together with emerging diagnostic and therapeutic advances, can help to…
The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), a Society dedicated to improving cardiovascular health by advancing the field of cardiovascular magnetic…
The FDA announced that it has approved patisiran infusion for the treatment of patients with peripheral nerve disease caused by hereditary transthyretin-mediated…
A UCL-led study has confirmed that some vials of a hormone used in discontinued medical treatments contained seeds of a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease,…
Tiny protein structures called amyloids are key to understanding certain devastating age-related diseases. Aggregates, or sticky clumped-up amyloids, form plaques…
Toxic protein assemblies, or "amyloids," long considered being key drivers in many neuromuscular diseases, also playing a beneficial role in the development of…
Rare Disease Day takes place on the last day of February each year. The main objective of Rare Disease Day is to raise awareness amongst the general public and…