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B cell activating factor possible key to hemophilia immune tolerance

Hemophilia Drug With Flexible Dosing

A group of scientists have just made a key discovery that could prevent and eradicate immune responses that lead to treatment failure in about one-third of people with severe hemophilia A. Hemophilia is the most common severe inherited bleeding disorder in men. The disease affects 1 in 10,000 males worldwide and results from deficiency of …

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New CAR T-Cell therapy extends remission in heavily relapsed multiple myeloma patients

New CAR T-Cell therapy extends remission in heavily relapsed multiple myeloma patients

A new type of CAR T-cell therapy more than triples the expected length of remission for multiple myeloma patients who have relapsed several times, according to an international clinical trial with UT Southwestern as the lead enrolling site. Results of the trial, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, were significantly better than …

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