A combination of cold agglutinin disease (CAD) and previously undetected hemochromatosis, a condition marked by excessive iron accumulation in the body’s organs, was likely the cause of severe liver damage in a woman in her 40s in the U.S., a case study reports. Although the woman carried only one…

Although my Scrabble scores may suggest otherwise, I have always been a logophile — a person deeply fascinated by and enamored with words. So it was with double delight that I recently discovered a new term: post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM is defined as “a delayed worsening of symptoms that occurs…

For people with hard-to-treat cold agglutinin disease (CAD), long-term treatment with Enjaymo (sutimlimab-jome) may offer lasting disease control, even with less frequent infusions than recommended, according to a small real-world study in Italy. Enjaymo was found to quickly reduce red blood cell destruction, ease anemia, and eliminate the need…

I expected to be feeling better and to have more energy after I received two units of red blood cells (RBCs) earlier this month, but instead, 10 days later, I found myself at the Spencer Cancer Center, feeling much worse. It was no wonder, a triage nurse said after my…