Port Elizabeth, South Africa – Fibrous dysplasia is a benign tumour-like condition in which normal bone is replaced by structurally poor fibro-osseous lamellar bone. It occurs as a result of an early embryonic postzygotic activating mutation of the GNAS gene which manifests clinically in a wide spectrum of disease. Fibrous...
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Tuberculosis should not be a death sentence in 2009. It wasn’t for me nearly 70 years ago after I contracted the disease in the Terezin concentration camp in what was then Czechoslovakia. But today, nearly 2 million people die from TB each year, an unconscionable number of lives lost to...
As we enter what I consider to be the most wonderful time of the year, I reflect on why this season of giving is so magical. Does it really have anything to do with the gifts under the tree, the parties, or the Christmas lights? Many of us fill our December...
KUSA – Beauty is only skin deep. Everyone knows that. But our actions don’t always reflect that understanding. For a clear picture of what that means we turn to the story of a teenager, yes a teenager. Seventeen-year-old Kelley Sperry is surrounded by peers that many of us might view...
Eddie Ndopu, an award-winning disability activist from South Africa, and one of 17 United Nations advocates for the Sustainable Development Goals, lives with spinal muscular atrophy, and faces many difficulty daily challenges. Ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on 3 December, Mr. Ndopu discusses how he has overcome...
West Des Moines, Iowa – Born in 2013, identical twins Kenzie and Kaylie Morell were hitting some, if not all, of their normal infant and toddler milestones—until they began to slip back from them. When Kenzie was around 15 months old, she started to regress. Kaylie followed a year and...
Trent Hills – How many five-year-olds can say they’ve thrown the ceremonial first pitch at a Blue Jay game the night the team’s ace pitcher Roy Halladay is honoured as Sportsperson of the Year, or shared the stage with international pop star John Mayer at a concert in Toronto? Isaac...
TORONTO – As his favourite team and hockey idol played Game 7 on Monday night, five-year-old Deccan Gill was watching and maybe even picking up a thing or two to add to his own repertoire. Deccan, known has “Super Deccan” to his more than 3,000 Instagram followers, routinely posts videos of...
LEUVEN, Belgium, STRASBOURG, France, and PHILADELPHIA — Flamingo Therapeutics (“Flamingo”) today announced the appointment of Andrew E. Denker, MD, PhD., as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Denker is a physician-scientist with over two decades of biotech and pharmaceutical industry experience in clinical development across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas, including oncology...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A best practices program developed at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) has been shown to improve outcomes for adult patients prescribed selinexor for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Results obtained from a one-year retrospective observational study using data collected by FCS’ Real-World...