Claire Gillespie

If you’ve been thinking about putting yourself forward for a clinical trial to help advance research into IgA nephropathy (IgAN), there’s never been a better time to do it. There are currently 70 IgAN-related clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov (... See more

Anticoagulants and antiplatelets are two common types of medications known as blood thinners. While they don’t literally make your blood thinner, they do help to prevent dangerous blood clots from forming, which reduces the risk for stroke, heart attack, ... See more

It’s estimated that as many as one in 500 people in the United States have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart disease where the heart muscle thickens (that’s the hypertrophy part) and reduces the amount of blood pumped through the body with each h... See more

Few things can send your world into a spiral like hearing from your doctor that you have Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder where symptoms gradually worsen from misplacing items, to forgetting to take medication, to struggling to commu... See more

Many of us hear Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and automatically think memory loss—one of the most common symptoms, and often the earliest sign—of this neurodegenerative condition, according to the National Institute on Aging, which currently affects 7.2 millio... See more