MUNCIE — Christopher Burrows got the best possible treat last Halloween. That’s the day he and his mother, Claudia Burrows, brought home Stitch, the service dog they’d been working toward for the past year. Claudia has ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, while Christopher has autism...
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It’s a warm Tuesday afternoon and the Shalvey family is enjoying the sun out on their patio while their dogs, Sam and Jerry, run around the yard. Add in their white picket fence and the image is idyllic – but not uncommon for Bill and Lynne and their two daughters,...
CLONMEL, Ireland – Shorla Pharma Limited (‘Shorla’), a specialty pharmaceutical company, announces the appointment of Chief Commercial Officer Nicholas Holsman, a highly experienced U.S. industry executive with in-depth experience in scaling oncology & specialty pharma enterprises. Shorla specializes in developing innovative oncology drugs, with a focus on orphan and pediatric cancers....
Imagine glass shards being smashed relentlessly into your bones over and over again. That is what the pain of sickle cell disease feels like, a young girl once told Velvet Brown-Watts, who three years ago started a local support group for sickle cell patients and their families. “I thought that...
REHOVOT and RAMAT GAN , Israel — Skip Therapeutics developer of computational platform for design of Antisense Oligonucleotide (ASO) based therapies and Sheba Medical Center, one of the leading medical centers in the world, announced today that they have entered a collaboration for the development of ASO-based treatments for rare...
WELLAND — While 12-year-old Andrew Lanese hasn’t been well enough to attend St. Alexander Catholic School, his fellow students and staff still consider him to be a part of their team that went out on the soccer fields Tuesday. The school hosted the first, of what is hoped to become...
He is just eight years old and should be enjoying football and computer games. But Ben Scott suffers from a rare form of dementia – which is slowly robbing him of his mental faculties and taking his life away. He can still recognise his mum and dad and give them...
WATERTOWN, Mass. — Sonata Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapeutics called Network Medicines™, and the Champalimaud Foundation, a world leader in biomedical research and academic medicine, today announced a research collaboration for the development of Sonata’s novel Network Medicine, SNT-3012. The partnership will drive the continued...
People say fatherhood is not for cowards. When three Malaysians found themselves gifted with special children, they could have chosen denial, indifference or escape. Instead, they stepped up to the plate. TWO people fall madly in love, get married, then start a family. They embrace parenthood with delight and watch...
GURNEE — Dylan Mudrick looks like other 15-month-old babies. His blue eyes light up when he smiles, and he is at a healthy weight for his age. However, Dylan was diagnosed with a rare disease when he was 4 days old and is now waiting for a liver transplant. When...