June 11, 2019
When it comes to shared medical decision-making, European patients with rheumatoid arthritis are open to ideas.
June 7, 2019
Elated. Nervous. Hopeful. That’s how thousands of cystic fibrosis patients felt upon hearing last week’s news: the Food and Drug Administration will soon review a new triple combination therapy that could drastically improve their quality of life.
June 5, 2019
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is dashing patients’ hopes yet again.
May 31, 2019
Migraine disease exists on a spectrum, presenting patients with different frequencies of attacks, whose duration and effect vary from person to person.
May 29, 2019
Most people have a stereotypical perception of Tourette syndrome. Likely based on a movie or TV show, their vision is of an uncontrollable stream of insults and curse words. On the screen, these symptoms become the joke, the punchline. Yet cliché portrayals of Tourette syndrome are not only oversimplified, but also harmful.
May 29, 2019
Cancer patients are breathing a sigh of relief. So are patients with movement disorders. And those with epilepsy, HIV and…
May 22, 2019
Whoever coined the old adage that “ignorance is bliss” clearly wasn’t thinking of gout.
May 21, 2019
New guidance from the Food and Drug Administration explains what manufacturers must do to qualify their biosimilar medicine as interchangeable with its reference product.
May 20, 2019
Sandeep Jauhar’s grandfather was sitting down to lunch with family when he crumpled to the floor.
May 15, 2019
High cholesterol? For most patients, that means starting a statin regimen. But now research suggests that it may be time to embrace a more nuanced approach to lowering LDL levels.
