Los informes son que los pacientes inmunodeprimidos tienen un mayor riesgo de infección, pero la frecuencia de resfriados y gripe no debería ser muy elevada. Los pacientes deberían decirle al médico acerca de varicela o la tuberculosis (activa o no como podría reactivar),…
Prednisona puede distorsionar las pruebas de laboratorio. Pruebas de alergia y pruebas de la tuberculosis será válidas. Examen de Papanicolau puede malinterpretarse como displasia cervical. Test results for tuberculosis and cancer may also be affected. Otros medicamentos también pueden interferir con los resultados de las pruebas médicas. Si…
While current therapies for some autoimmune diseases may be adequate to keep your disease in balance, advances in biotechnology research may revolutionize the future treatment of these potentially debilitating conditions by more specifically attacking the cause of the autoimmunity. Drug…
Following is a summary of the clinical trial process which we hope you find useful in your journey towards understanding if clinical trial participation is right for you and/or someone you care about. It is our hope that by providing…
Clinical trials are studies using the drug in humans, designed to identify new and better treatments for diseases. Clinical trials determine if a drug is safe and effective, at what doses it works best and what the side effects are.…
Clinical trials may be sponsored by pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology companies, but are administered at hospital and/or research institutions by physician experts in the disease field. Each site (hospital and/or research institution) is required to receive approval by an IRB (institutional…
As a volunteer in a clinical trial, you are participating in the development of new medical therapies – therapies that may offer better treatments and even cures for life-threatening and chronic diseases. The hope of personally benefiting from a new…
Without individuals with these diseases willing to participate in clinical trials, safer, more effective therapies than existing ones would never make it to the clinic. Although participation in a clinical trial may not benefit you directly, and is associated with…
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of patients with PV using Infliximab The purpose of this trial is to determine the safety of infliximab (Remicade) for the treatment of patients with pemphigus vulgaris. Secondary clinical endpoints include the number of days…
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Division of Immunotherapy is utilizing methods that allow the safe isolation, manipulation and preservation of population of stem cells and immune cells for therapeutic purposes. Currently DIAD collaborates with the Divisions of Rheumatology, Nephrology,…
