Patient support with drug coverage

Green Tea May Help with IGF-1

Acromegaly Patient Conference

An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo helped Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form of gigantism that often results in enlarged hands, feet, and facial features.

Patients who switched from Sandostatin to Somatuline

Imagine if your doctor made time to really listen to you. What if he or she was so committed, they gave you their personal cell phone number? How would that change your life?

At 7-foot-9, it's hard to overlook Chinese center Sun Mingming. The comparisons with NBA star Yao Ming(notes) are inevitable.

There are times when a man with an ugly mug doesn't mind having that mug mugged by a camera. For one thing, it may depend upon what kind of money or other good returns that may come his way after the camera shutter clicks its last exposure. This possibly would result in whether he was a victor or a victim of his film-recorded image.

The colon is the longest part of the large intestine and the lowest part of the digestive system. Inside the colon, water and salt from solid wastes are extracted before the waste moves through the rectum and exits the body through the anus.

Last year, the F.D.A. fielded more than 500 requests from seriously ill patients who wanted to be treated on a "compassionate use" basis with drugs that had not been approved by the agency, a figure that patient advocates say represents a small fraction of the demand.

Sunnyvale resident Irina Kofman was a head taller than her kindergarten classmates and her doctors didn't know why.

Jose Canseco joins the MMA after Acromegaly surgery

SYMPTOMS "You have big hands," the white-haired doctor said as he shook the patient's hand. The patient nodded and smiled — he had certainly heard that before

Talk the talk means you have to walk the walk. The 2009 Arthritis Walk is the Arthritis Foundation's national event to take the pain out of arthritis. Frankly, arthritis sucks. To be more refined, I'm sure the Queen of England would say that arthritis is a very unpleasant malady. (Hey, don't you just love, love, love that the Queen and First Lady Michelle Obama hugged? I wonder if they are BFFs and will text each other.)