Testing umbilical cord blood can help identify newborns with undiagnosed erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) or X-linked protoporphyria (XLP), two inherited forms…
Articles by Steve Bryson, PhD
Skin damage in variegate porphyria (VP) is worsened by impaired formation of the protective outer skin layers, according to…
Sudden delusions and paranoia experienced by a 41-year-old woman without a psychiatric history were triggered by an undiagnosed case of…
Short- and long-term treatment with Scenesse (afamelanotide) improves life quality in adults with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), according to the…
A newly developed treatment to prevent phototoxicity, or light-induced skin damage, was found effective in a mouse model of erythropoietic…
The incidence of liver cancer is highest among adults with acute hepatic porphyrias (AHPs) who are older, female, symptomatic,…
The so-called hCG diet for weight loss, which combines a low-calorie diet with injections of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic…
CTX450, an investigational gene-editing therapy for acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), was able to normalize disease-associated biomarkers in a mouse…
High levels of the amino acid homocysteine — a potentially harmful side effect of Givlaari (givosiran) — were successfully…
A woman with premenstrual pain and a brain condition called posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) was eventually diagnosed with…