Among previously untreated adults with Gaucher disease type 1, a genetic disease in which there is improper metabolism due to a defect in an enzyme, treatment with the drug eliglustat resulted in ...

Rufus, the naked mole-rat sidekick from the cartoon “Kim Possible,” could plausibly still be alive today, and he might have a really big spleen. What’s new — While completing other research on naked ...

(San Diego, December 6, 2016) - Compared with standard therapy, pacritinib significantly reduces spleen size among people with myelofibrosis who have very low levels of platelets, according to a ...

Conditional Survival and the Choice of Conditioning Set for Patients With Colon Cancer: An Analysis of NSABP Trials C-03 Through C-07 We retrospectively assessed the relationship between chemotherapy ...

(HealthDay News) – For patients with myelofibrosis, treatment with a potent and selective Janus kinase 1 and 2 inhibitor, ruxolitinib, provides significant clinical benefit compared with the best ...

The current available treatment for PMF, including transfusions, androgens, thalidomide and myelosuppressive agents such as hydroxyurea, does not seem to modify the natural course of the disease. The ...

I am a 22-year-old runner and I just graduated from Syracuse University. After finals and graduation celebrations I returned home very tired, with a fever and swollen glands. I went to my family ...