Past CureTalks
Multiple Myeloma: An Insight into Early Intervention and Personalized Therapies
Myeloma patients are definitely living longer. A decade ago the median survival was 3 to 4 years, while now it is in the range of 8 to 10 years. With all the new drugs and treatments that have been approved,…
Effective Mind-Body Strategies to Reduce the Stress of Infertility and Improve Mental Health
Research has shown that our mental state affects the outcomes of treatment in all disease conditions, including infertility, where it may decrease the chances of conception. Couples dealing with infertility go through immense stress, often times severe depression, as the…
Beating Leukemia with Groundbreaking CAR-T Cell Therapy
Dr. Stephan A. Grupp made history when he treated the first child with CAR T cell therapy, Emily Whitehead, who is now more than five years cancer-free. In CAR-T cell therapy, a patient's own genetically altered immune cells fight cancer.…
Endometriosis – The How & Why and Recent Advances in Treatment with Dr Camran Nezhat
Endometriosis is a disease where the cells of internal lining of the uterus (endometrium) starts to grow outside the uterus, mainly on organs in the pelvis, causing a maze of symptoms including not only pelvic pain, infertility, and severe menstrual…
Becoming a part of the solution: The Metastatic Prostate Cancer Project
The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the most sophisticated bioscience and biotechnology research centers in North America. It seeks to empower a revolution in biomedicine that will accelerate the speed at which we can conquer disease. The…