Huntington’s Disease and SCA Treatment Options

Scott Schobel, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Vico Therapeutics, discusses current treatment options for Huntington’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA1 and SCA3).     Huntington’s disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by...

Relapsed Multiple Myeloma Treatment

Binod Dhakal, MD, Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin discusses current treatment options for patients with refractory or relapsed multiple myeloma.     Multiple myeloma is a rare blood cancer associated with uncontrolled growth of plasma...

Recognizing and Diagnosing WHIM Syndrome

WHIM syndrome is a rare, congenital primary immunodeficiency disorder associated with neutropenia that typically presents in childhood or adolescence, predominantly caused by pathogenic variants in the CXCR4 chemokine receptor gene.[1] The CXCR4 receptor is involved...

Newborn SCID Screening Benefits

 Jennifer Puck, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-leader of Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network’s (RDCRN) Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium, and  Monica Thakar, MD, Associate Professor at both Fred...

Nefecon For IgA Nephropathy Treatment

Richard Lafayette, MD, FACP, Director of the Stanford Glomerular Disease Center, and Rheumatologist at Stanford Health Care, describes the latest clinical trial assessing Nefecon (budesonide delayed-release capsules) for immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy treatment....