The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy to plozasiran for use to reduce triglycerides in familial chylomicronemia syndrome.

Working together with the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), researchers from University of Birmingham have opened a trial to study how messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccines ...

Digestive enzymes are proteins that help break down food into smaller parts so your body can easily use the nutrients. The enzymes are produced in different parts of the digestive system, including ...

Staging of patients with early pancreatic cancer is inaccurate as much as 80% of the time, according to a new Cedars-Sinai Cancer study published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA.The finding ...

In contrast to other commonly-diagnosed cancers like colorectal and lung cancer, the five-year survival rate after diagnosis for pancreatic cancer is alarmingly low, at 8.5% in Japan. Identity ...

The pain, he told me, stems from the pancreas swelling and dumping out amylase and lipase into the bloodstream. The only way to rectify it is to not engage with your digestive system. So no eating ...

The overall risk of malignancy in pancreatic cysts may be as low as 0.5 to 1.5%, and the annual risk of progression is 0.5%. 7,15 Conversely, studies estimate that 15% of all pancreatic ...

Researchers are enrolling patients in a trial of ELI-00 7P — a vaccine to treat KRAS-mutant cancer. After a phase 1 trial showed that the ELI-002 vaccine was safe and efficacious in treating stages 1 ...

qualified on the basis of a history of acute pancreatitis, which was recurrent in 76%; 2 patients had evidence of low lipoprotein lipase activity (<20% of normal value) on the basis of source ...

This will result in the following costs: Canine pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity test (blood analysis): $40 to $80 per panel Abdominal ultrasound: $300 to $350 Abdominal X-ray: $150 to $250 ...