The incidence of liver cancer is highest among adults with acute hepatic porphyrias (AHPs) who are older, female, symptomatic,…
Articles by Steve Bryson, PhD
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…
Five years of standard treatment did not slow the progression of congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP) — the rarest type…
A 20-year-old Chinese woman experiencing bouts of abdominal pain and seizures eventually was diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP),…
Surgical removal of the spleen effectively eased the signs and symptoms of severe congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP) in a…
Disc Medicine has been granted a U.S. patent for treating erythropoietic protoporphyrias (EPPs) with glycine transport inhibitors, such…
A high financial burden is associated with acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) — one particularly driven by hospitalization and medical…