Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have a negative impact on employment, found a study published in the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. “The ...

Although nerve conduction studies are the gold standard for diagnosing chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), imaging techniques such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging ...

The studies indicated comparable growth trends regardless of whether therapy was initiated before or after age 5. Vosoritide, a once-daily injectable therapy, may improve growth outcomes in children ...

RPL30 showed the highest fold-change difference in patients with PBC compared to healthy people. Anti-RPL30 seems to be a promising biomarker for the diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Panzyga, manufactured by Octapharma AG, for the treatment of PI and ITP in 2018 and for CIDP in adults in 2021. Octapharma commercializes Panzyga ...

The 2D segmentation models showed best performance for the iliac bone marrow. Researchers from the United States developed 4 different deep-learning U-Net models that could effectively automate bone ...

For the last 3 years, the PBC Foundation, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has conducted an annual summit that addresses the challenges and potential remedies for those living with primary biliary ...

Multiplex ligation probe amplification analysis identified 1 patient as having a homozygous deletion and another as having a heterozygous deletion for Gaucher disease (GD). For the study, the ...

Dan Lier has light chain (AL) amyloidosis—the most common form of amyloidosis. Larry Luxner, senior correspondent for Rare Disease Advisor, interviews former college basketball player Dan Lier, a ...

Bone age assessment as a marker of skeletal maturation is a relevant biomarker in treatment decisions for achondroplasia. Use of the Deeplasia method for evaluating bone age in patients with such ...

Elevations in AFP-L3 and ALT concentrations, despite low AFP levels, support the need to use a multi-marker panel to strengthen the accuracy of HCC diagnoses. In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma ...

The proportion of CD38+HLA-DR+CD8+ T cells was significantly higher in the blood of patients with cirrhosis compared to healthy controls. They also showed that the ratio of these cells was strongly ...