Rachel Tompa

Dec 8, 2024 | news.med.miami.edu | Rachel Tompa

By: Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. | December 08, 2024 | 7 min. read |  Share Article SummaryTwo clinical trials led by Sylvester researchers have tested the antibody loncastuximab tesirine in patients with different lymphomas and both show encouraging results.

Nov 22, 2024 | scopeblog.stanford.edu | Jennifer Welsh |Christopher Vaughan |Rachel Tompa

When a 67-year-old man entered the office of Giselle Salmasi, MD, seeking a second opinion about a severe, mysterious blood-clotting condition, she knew she needed to act quickly. "There was an urgency to find answers," said the Stanford Medicine clinical associate professor of hematology. It turned out that the man's condition was new to medicine; it had been pinpointed in others only a year earlier by a doctor at the Mayo Clinic.

Nov 18, 2024 | med.stanford.edu | Rachel Tompa

"This opens a whole new way of thinking about the role of chaperones in brain development," said Frydman, who is one of the senior authors on the study. All the patients the researchers identified have one healthy copy of the TRiC complex gene in addition to the mutated version. That squares with the chaperone's importance - two mutated copies of any of these genes would likely be lethal.

Nov 14, 2024 | medicine.yale.edu | Rachel Tompa

With more than 6 million people in the U.S. suffering from opioid use disorder, methods to treat addiction and its fallout are sorely needed. But the most evidence-based treatment method—medication for opioid use disorder—is significantly underused. A new study led by researchers at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and published Nov. 13 in the journal JAMA Network Open found that fewer than half of psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. have such medications available for their patients.

Nov 1, 2024 | medicine.yale.edu | Rachel Tompa

Since 2005, only 50 face transplants have been performed worldwide—10 of them by Bohdan Pomahac, MD, Frank F. Kanthak Professor of Surgery (Plastics) and chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Yale School of Medicine. With very few procedures being done every year and fewer than 20 surgeons around the world with the expertise to perform these transplants, the field to date has been somewhat fragmented, Pomahac said.