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 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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The levels of MCP-1 and TNFR-2 were significantly lower in patients with Fabry disease compared to those with chronic kidney disease. Levels of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), tumor ...

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 ...

The primary outcome measures include assessing I-RODS scores at baseline and monitoring variations at 6 and 12 months after enrollment An upcoming observational, noninterventional study aims to assess ...

Impairments in memory recall and verbal fluency were especially pronounced, while global cognitive function was mildly affected in patients with NMOSD. Cognitive impairments are common in patients ...

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 ...

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 ...