by Peter Ciszewski | Apr 1, 2021
Anne Wood Beaven, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of Operations, Division of Hematology at University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discusses how cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL) are treated. CTCL belongs to the non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
by Peter Ciszewski | Apr 1, 2021
Chandler Crews, a young adult with achondroplasia, explains the condition and her bone lengthening surgery. Achondroplasia is a skeletal dysplasia characterized by the failure of normal conversion of cartilage into bone, most notably in longer bones, which...
by Peter Ciszewski | Apr 1, 2021
Stacy Pokorny, a mother of a young girl with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), gives advice to parents of children who have recently been diagnosed with the disease. SMA is a rare inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by an inadequate level of the survivor...
by Peter Ciszewski | Mar 31, 2021
Jonathan Hill talks about his graphic novel “Blood of the Paladin”, a semi-autobiographical story about a teenager with hemophilia A. Hemophilia A is a genetic bleeding disorder due to missing or defective clotting protein, factor VIII. Symptoms are dependent...
by Peter Ciszewski | Mar 31, 2021
Sarah Boyce, President and CEO of Avidity Biosciences, describes the common diagnostic process of an individual with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). FSHD is a rare, progressive musculoskeletal disease in which persons initially lose muscle...
