The dilemma of untangling cause and effect is perhaps best encapsulated by the chicken-or-egg paradox. It may provide cocktail party banter, but to an evolutionary biologist, it’s pretty simple: eggs are much older than chickens. At
Admirable advances in genetic medicine have recently stoked hopes that precision therapeutics may be on the way for patients living with rare diseases. But in reality, much of the data collected and generated is parked in proprietary databases.
You may have heard that human serum is one of the most important tools in today’s laboratory, but let’s look at why. What is human serum? Human serum is a clear bodily fluid that is obtained
Rare diseases are a paradoxic — they are both uncommon and common. And understanding them may help us to gain insights into more ordinary diseases. If a disease affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States, it
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic of Restasis© (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion) eye drops to increase tear production in people with chronic dry eye (CDE). Why is a generic product good
Inventing a new kind of plastic to remove plastic pollution from our drinking water may sound counterintuitive. But for Frank Leibfarth, PhD, it makes perfect sense. Leibfarth, an assistant professor of chemistry, invented a synthetic resin
About 3 in every 10 people with epilepsy will find that anti-seizure drugs do not bring relief. Plus, it may take 1 to 2 years of treatments to know whether medicine helps. Uncontrolled epilepsy may interfere with your
We get it. Names and labels matter. While they are often meant to inform, labels can sometimes feel stigmatizing. Some people living with epilepsy take issue with it being called a disease. They may think this makes
Cibinqo® (abrocitinib) is a daily medicine for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis is also known as eczema. Cibinqo is useful for adults with atopic dermatitis that has not responded well to other drugs or biologics.
Rinvoq® (upadacitinib) is a drug for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, or eczema. It is useful for people who are unable to take other medicines, therapies, or biologics for atopic dermatitis, or those who have not responded
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