As cruel as some animal rights activists might think it is, every drug we now have owes its existence to animal testing. If you follow our blog or you’re otherwise interested in clinical research, you know that the very first phase of a clinical trial or phase 0 is testing the new drug on animals. And not any animals, mind…
What do you do when you or a loved one is diagnosed with a condition that conventional medicine cannot cure yet? This was the question our CEO Maya Zlatanova was faced with when her sister was diagnosed with bulimia and she and her family had to start searching for alternatives. Thankfully, Maya was not clueless about clinical trials. Unlike so…
All through the year, we talked innovations here on the blog. We gave you all the relevant information about the ins and outs of clinical trials, practical tips on how to deal with everyday life with a chronic disease, looked into the new treatments being developed for various conditions… And we’d like to conclude the year with some more updates…
The World Health Organization (WHO) already considers diabetes an epidemic and predicts that in the not-so-distant future it will be the seventh leading cause of death at a global scale. So when a piece begins with a statement about the ‘diabetes epidemic’ know that writers are not being dramatic for the sake of keeping your attention. The numbers are scary…
Whenever the nervous system is affected or involved in any way, things get complicated. So, we at FindMeCure are starting off NERVEmber with a post about quite the obscure condition that otherwise doesn’t get much attention in comparison to its more talked about relatives in the family of nervous system diseases: MC, Alzheimer’s, Epilepsy, Parkinson’s… Yes, that’s right, we’ll be…
Holden is one of these kids whose parents are brave enough to take a risk both for his own benefit and for the children outside of clinical trials who nevertheless might need the drug in development. Holden is fighting Crohn’s disease - a kind of inflammatory bowel disease, which causes abdominal pain, severe, sometimes bloody diarrhea, weight loss, and malnutrition.…
