Singapore — Just nine Singaporeans – or about 0.4 per cent of the 2,000 to 3,000 who have chronic rare diseases here – have received help from the Rare Disease Fund (RDF) since it was started in 2019. Most patients with rare diseases are able to get financial help from...
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TORONTO, Canada – An international research team led by Krembil Brain Institute Neurologist and Senior Scientist, Dr. Anthony Lang, has proposed a new model for classifying Parkinson’s disease (PD). In recent decades, researchers have uncovered several biological factors that underlie PD. Key factors include a build up of the protein...
A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she didn’t even use her insurance to pay for it. But now, her Medicare insurance is shelling out about $40,000 for a one-month supply of...
San Francisco, Calif. – Multiple sclerosis patients whose blood tests reveal elevated NfL, a biomarker of nerve damage, could see worsening disability one to two years later, according to a new study spearheaded by researchers at UC San Francisco. The study is the first to quantify the timeframe preceding disability...
Checkpoint with forkhead and ring finger (CHFR) is a mitotic stress checkpoint gene whose promoter is frequently methylated in various kinds of cancer. In gastric cancer, CHFR promoter hypermethylation has been reported to lead to chromosome instability (CIN) and genetic instability is one of the hallmarks of human cancer. A...
Toruń, Poland – Boys suffering from Barth syndrome, a genetic determined disease with a very high mortality rate, finally have hope for a cure. What has contributed to this finding is research of Dr. habil Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska, Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland) CU Professor from the Institute of Physics. The...
Cleveland, Ohio – A team led by scientists at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has identified a new therapeutic approach for combating neurodegenerative diseases, offering hope of improved treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Vanishing White Matter disease and multiple sclerosis, among others. Neurodegenerative diseases, which affect millions...
Laurel Hollow, NY – Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the University of California, Davis have reached a new breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research—eight years in the making. It could help slow the disease’s deadly spread. In 2017, as a postdoc in CSHL’s Tuveson lab, Chang-il Hwang and collaborators from...
New York – Pancreatic cancer is not just one disease, but that’s the way it is currently treated. New findings from Tannishtha Reya’s lab could help pave the way for a change. Though most pancreatic cancers are classified as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) several other subtypes exist. “Everyone gets the...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Diabetes affects more than 1 in 10 — or more than 38 million — Americans. People with diabetes who keep their blood sugar levels in the near-normal range generally have a much lower risk of developing diabetes complications such as heart, kidney, and eye diseases. The...