New drug shows promise in controlling deadly blood cancer

Photo caption: Scientist or techinician hold levender tube with blood sample for hematological or whole blood test. Photo credit: Md Saiful Islam Khan / iStock. Article by Rizwan Choudhury. Interesting Engineering – February 22, 2024. Research: The New England Journal of Medicine.

A new drug called rusfertide has shown promising results in a clinical trial for polycythemia vera, a rare and life-threatening blood cancer. The drug lowered the excess production of red blood cells, the main cause of the disease and its serious complications. The trial, led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai […]

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