July 31 -- THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- Though its reputation doesn't rank down there with the appendix, the spleen isn't exactly known as a vital organ. In fact, plenty of people do fine ...

Among previously untreated adults with Gaucher disease type 1, a genetic disease in which there is improper metabolism due to a defect in an enzyme, treatment with the drug eliglustat resulted in ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the ...

Healthy human red blood cells (RBCs) gradually degrade over their lifespan of ~120 days. However, sickle cells - RBCs from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients - degrade much faster within their ...

Researchers have designed a microfluidic device, or 'spleen-on-a-chip,' that can model how the spleen's filters become clogged by sickled red blood cells, leading to a life-threatening condition known ...

Genetic diseases caused by mutations in single genes have long been the darling of gene therapy efforts. In a twist on this theme, a team from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) has ...

Long-term follow-up of patients (pts) with relapsed or refractory (r/r) follicular lymphoma (FL) treated with copanlisib. Outcomes of patients (pts) ≥ 65 years of age in ZUMA-1, a pivotal phase 1/2 ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Echosens, a high-technology company offering the FibroScan family of products, announces the launch of FibroScan 630 Expert in the United States, a comprehensive ...

A Minnesota woman has filed a lawsuit that alleges her surgeon removed her kidney, and not her spleen, in 2022, leaving her with significant health issues According to the lawsuit documents, Wendy ...