Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with four rare genetic forms of obesity did not have a significant reduction in BMI with setmelanotide.

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a genetic disorder a person can inherit from a parent. It can cause a person to develop dangerously high cholesterol levels. HeFH affects how a ...

Homozygous deficiency of alpha 1-atitrypsin is known to predispose to pulmonary emphysema. Measurement of the trypsin inhibitory capacity (TIC) of serum specimens from 28 relatives of a homozygous ...

A randomized phase II trial of medical cannabis to reduce symptom burden in patients with newly diagnosed advanced pancreatic cancer (CanPan). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2026 ASCO ...

Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) of cognitive impairment after blood or marrow transplantation (BMT) for hematologic malignancy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting ...

Eliot Brinton, MD, opens a discussion surrounding the treatment landscape for patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Eliot Brinton, MD: I’m Dr Elliot Brinton. I’m the president ...

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a monogenic disorder that affects about 1 in 500 people, with a higher prevalence in certain subpopulations such as people of Quebecois, Christian ...

(A): Pedigree of the patient's family, including parents, a sister who died of HI disease, a stillbirth boy at 12 weeks of pregnancy, two healthy brothers and sister carrying the mutation and the ...