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Aug 22, 2024 | 
agrinews-pubs.com | Eric Miller |Eric Monticello
It continues to look fantastic. We just got through one of the coolest and wettest Julys on record for Illinois, so that’s a good combination for crops. Our weather station had about seven and a quarter inches of rain for July. Boy, does that make double-crop soybeans look good. They have never looked better. They are just fantastic this year. They have a long way to go, but they have a great start and I would say they have never looked better at this time of the year.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Enlarged lymph nodes are a symptom of the rare condition, Castleman disease, but swollen lymph nodes are also a symptom of many other conditions. And that’s one reason it’s difficult to diagnose Castleman disease, said Michael Gonzalez, Ph.D. and Director of Basic and Translational Research at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The condition caused by a hyperactive immune system can damage organs or even be fatal.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Alfredo Álvarez, a project manager with CSL Vifor in Gijón, Spain, is helping create and execute a vision for how Patient Blood Management (PBM) can be implemented in health care. PBM acknowledges the risks of anemia, blood loss and bleeding disorders. As the World Health Organization describes, it’s “a systematic, multidisciplinary, multiprofessional concept to routinely minimize for these risk factors,” which places the patient at the center of care.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
As vaccination rates fall in the United States, leaders at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are calling upon doctors, pharmacists and others in the clinical and biomedical community to educate the public “in plain language” about the health benefits of vaccines.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Patients wait eagerly for new treatments, but it takes years to fully investigate, conceive of and test a new medicine. The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), which advocates for rare disease patients, recently launched a new course that helps explain the process.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Kieran Dowling, a Technical Logistics Senior Manager based in the United Kingdom, believes in running a no-fail operation. The cargo he’s responsible for – vaccines – must get from point A to point B. Working with the Global Logistics team, Dowling takes pride in ensuring trade routes are ironclad and having a contingency plan at all times. He’s also a self-starter looking for ways to lessen his department’s impact on the environment.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Imagine dying six times, living to tell about it and becoming a therapist in the process. It’s the true story of Dr. Brittany Clayborne, who survived a rare form of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a heart transplant and cancer. The harrowing, psychologically draining experience motivated her to become a mental health advocate for people with critical illness. Now, she’s booked by organizations and universities across the United States to share her story of perseverance.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Preparations are underway for draft day February 3 at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, but these recruits excel in something other than football. Every year, Uplifting Athletes (UA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to rare disease patients, selects 10 promising scientists in its Young Investigator Draft at the Philadelphia Eagles stadium. Each draftee receives a $20,000 grant to pursue game-changing research into rare conditions.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
Watch any movie and you can always pick out the doctor because he or she is in a white coat. It’s a longtime custom, but some are asking if it’s still necessary – especially in light of the working conditions doctors experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recently published journal article looked at two studies – one in 2017 and one in 2022 – and found that patient preference for formal attire, including the doctor’s white coat, dropped following the pandemic.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
csl.com | Eric Monticello
When they have the resources they need, patient advocacy groups can accelerate positive change for the rare disease community. CSL Behring’s LEAD Grant Program in Europe, now accepting applications, helps patient organizations fund key projects. LEAD stands for Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development and the program offers up to €10,000 for each selected European advocacy organization.
