Karen Jacobson-Sive

Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) often feel negative emotions around treatment, and considering patient preferences may help optimize and personalize treatment, and thereby improve patients’ overall well-being, according to a study that relied on patient focus groups and artificial intelligence […]

Children with a genetic risk of developing myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and other hematopoietic malignancies (HM), such as leukemias and lymphomas, should receive intensive monitoring, in order to identify patients who would most benefit from hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), according

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are likely to suffer from poor sleep quality, and thus dyspnea and exercise intolerance, contributing to greater disease burden, according to a study in Acta Cardiologica Sinica.1 “Poor sleep quality is an overlooked symptom

Rituximab-induced interstitial lung disease (RILD) in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) presents most commonly as lung disease, organizing pneumonia, and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, and it is associated with 179 pathogenic microorganisms, according to a retrospective study in the Annals of

Patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) benefit from shared decision making around SMA-enhancing treatment decisions, according to a systematic literature review published in Neurology that engaged with multiple health care provider and community working groups around the issue.1 Patients with

Zanubrutinib maintained long-term improved safety and tolerability profiles over a roughly 3.5 year period in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma, compared with ibrutinib, according to a randomized trial published in Blood.1 “In this study

Oral function in adult patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) varies widely, therefore, oral function should be measured regularly, according to a prospective cross-sectional study in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.1 “Our results underscore the heterogeneity of oral function effort

Patients who have the low-count chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) phenotype monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (LC-MBL) have a nearly doubled risk for melanoma, according to a study in Journal of Clinical Oncology.1 MBL is a premalignant condition that is roughly 500 times

Researchers have discovered biomarkers for diverse forms of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) following applications of untargeted liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and the Random Forest (RF) machine-learning algorithm, according to a multicenter, retrospective, longitudinal study published in Cellular and Molecular

The gene augmentation therapy voretigene neparvovec-rzyl (VN; Luxturna) helped patients with RPE65-related retinopathy partially regain the full‑field electroretinogram (ERG), according to a retrospective chart review of 12 patients in Documenta Ophthalmologica.1 “Voretigene neparvovec has changed the field of inherited retinal