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Bringing a new drug or biological agent to market is extremely expensive, a fact many manufacturer’s cite in pricing. Now a new study points to the fact that new agents are also very expensive in terms of human capital. William …

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Clinical trial results are required by federal law to be posted within two years of a trial’s conclusion, with data available on a website called ClinicalTrials.gov. A recent study looked at how often researchers are complying. William Nelson, director of …

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Black women often experience breast cancers that are more advanced at the time of diagnosis, and may be more difficult to treat. A recent study looked for the presence of different genes among Black and white women with breast cancer …

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Long Covid is being used to describe continued fatigue, pain, and impaired cognition following Covid-19 infection. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says these two conditions may be one and the same, and there are at least two …

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If you’ve had Covid-19 and are still struggling with things like fatigue and pain months later, the virus may have triggered ME/CFS, the new term for chronic fatigue syndrome. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says the good …

Knowing that ME/CFS may be the real issue in so-called ‘long Covid’ is key to treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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The chronic medical condition called ME/CFS, the new term for chronic fatigue syndrome, can be triggered by Covid-19 infection, even when the acute illness seems mild. That’s according to Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, who says the …

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS for short, is a composite term for a constellation of fatigue, pain, cognition issues and other symptoms of unknown cause. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says this also describes many cases …

The condition many are calling ‘long Covid’ may look a lot like another chronic health condition, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »