[Video] A Doctor Works to Cure His Disease and Help Others

I decided to write Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race To Turn Hope Into Action, because I learned so much about life, hope, and resilience from nearly dying five times and fighting back to find a treatment that is saving my life. I knew these lessons were applicable beyond those battling disease and felt compelled…

You’ve probably seen the term “cytokine storm” in the news a lot recently. That’s because COVID19 is able to unleash a cytokine storm in the most sick cases. As someone who has survived 5 deadly COVID19-like cytokine storms due to idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease and who studies cytokine storms in my lab, I thought I’d…

Congress should encourage companies to repurpose existing drugs for rare diseases, potentially doubling the number of treatment options for patients. Lately, there has been a national uproar over the rising cost of medicine in the U.S. While this is an important public debate, it largely overlooks the critical importance of innovation, which is desperately needed…

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HFHfTd9-Y8[/embedyt] Check out the above video about our COVID19 drug repurposing work or go to: https://youtu.be/0HFHfTd9-Y8 Thank you to Jimmy Baggott for making this amazing video! #ThinkItDoIt #FromHopeToAction #ChasingMyCure #ChasingCOVIDsCure   David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, Chasing My Cure: A…

It has been amazing to see all of the incredible press and media attention for Chasing My Cure! Check out the various stories below: Chasing My Cure in the press: Good Morning America, August 26, 2019 Philadelphia Magazine, August 28, 2019 Philadelphia Inquirer, September 5, 2019 Next Big Idea Club—Top 6 Nonfiction Books of Fall…

Wow, my head is spinning from these recent clinical trial results. Within minutes of one another, two conflicting studies were released. The first I’ll highlight is of tocilizumab (the drug that my friend and colleague Kazu Yoshizaki developed to treat Castleman disease and tested on himself to prove that it was safe before giving it…