Multiple Myeloma
Show 1328: Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks
Our interview this week is all about repurposing medications. Hundreds of rare diseases don’t have effective treatments. Even some common conditions lack approved therapies. The research to develop …
Does CAR-T Offer Hope for Multiple Myeloma Cance…
Multiple myeloma is personal for me. That's because my best friend, Dr. Tom Ferguson, died from this blood cancer on April 14, 2006. Every year about 35,000 people are diagnosed with multiple myeloma …
Show 1170: What Makes Your Immune System an Eleg…
This show first aired in June, 2019, before anyone had heard of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. Today, understanding how your immune system works to overcome an infection is more important than ever. Just how…
Are Sky-High Orphan Drug Costs Bankrupting Healt…
Drug companies have fallen in love with rare diseases. That’s because they are huge money makers for the pharmaceutical industry. It wasn’t always this way. Before the Orphan Drug Act, rare or unu…
New Model of Care for Multiple Myeloma
Serious blood cancers like multiple myeloma are frequently treated in the hospital, especially when patients receive bone marrow transplants. This is expensive and even risky, since patients are susce…