For more than 20 years, scientists have been studying the theory of the
hygiene hypothesis – the idea that organisms we might consider dangerous today
were actually protecting our immune systems before modern medicine existed.
Autoimmunity: The worm returns By: Joel V. Weinstock,
M.D., Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
at Tufts New England Medical Center
Published byNature
Joel V. Weinstock explains why several clinical trials are
deliberately infecting people with helminths to treat autoimmune
diseases...
(Reuters) - If you had a
chronic and potentially debilitating condition such as
rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease, and swallowing the eggs
of a pig parasite could help, would you do it?...
Earlier this week,
Coronado Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNDO) announced that Phase 1
TSO Data will be presented as an oral presentation at the 8th
International Congress on Autoimmunity to be held May 9-13, 2012
in Granada, Spain. Why should investors care?...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just the thought of swallowing worm eggs may
be enough to turn many people’s stomachs, but some people are
very willing to swallow them – and not on a dare.
FOX 4 Medical Reporter Meryl Lin McKean reports that the worm
eggs may prove to be a good way to treat Crohn’s Disease – a
painful, chronic bowel disease that can be debilitating for many
people.
With Restructuring Completed in January 2011, the New Coronado
Biosciences, Inc. is an Immunotherapy Company with One Product
Focused on Autoimmune Diseases and the Other Product Focused on
Immunotherapy for Cancer…
Coronado Biosciences is not out to prove that pigs can fly. But
the Burlington, Massachusetts biotech is waging millions that a
pig parasite can be used to fight autoimmune diseases and has
found a new partner that also has bought into that belief…
Coronado Biosciences (CNDO), a biopharmaceutical company
focused on the development of novel immunotherapy agents for the
treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer, will visit the NASDAQ
MarketSite in New York City's Times Square…
The path to becoming a publicly listed company chosen by Coronado
Biosciences (NASDAQ:CNDO) was anything but conventional, but it seems to
be working for the biotech startup…
SAN DIEGO — “Take two worms and call me in the morning” could
soon be the best prescription for patients who have multiple sclerosis,
ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease…
It’s not too often that a biotech company marches into the FDA
and asks permission to run human tests of a remedy derived from
parasitic worms. But the agency will likely be entertaining just such a
request sometime in the next couple of months….
For people suffering from debilitating autoimmune disorders such
as multiple sclerosis, there is growing evidence that help may be at
hand from an unusual source: parasitic worms…
