What if the cure for your disease was already sitting on a drugstore shelf? That's the audacious premise driving Dr. David ...

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David Fajgenbaum was 25 years old the first time he almost died. He was in his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. His goal was to become an oncologist — an ambition born ...

In 2010, halfway through his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, lay in a bed at Duke University Hospital, dying from a rare disease. Tests showed he had ...

SAN FRANCISCO — About a decade ago, David Fajgenbaum thought his life was over. He was a young, bright physician hoping to work in oncology in remembrance of his mother, who died of brain cancer a few ...

When David Fajgenbaum was in medical school, he was diagnosed with a rare and potentially deadly disease of the lymph nodes. There were very few treatments available and no cure. So, he had to take ...

Dr. David Fajgenbaum knows firsthand how using a repurposed drug can save lives: He found an existing medication that rescued his own life from an immunity disorder he acquired in medical school. Now ...

In 2010, Dr. David Fajgenbaum was a third-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania when suddenly, his health took an unexpected turn. Over the course ...

When David Fajgenbaum's mother died of brain cancer, the Georgetown University student founded Students of Ailing Mothers and Fathers in 2007 to cope. Now a doctor who's been diagnosed with a rare and ...

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. Joseph ...

We thank Dr Fajgenbaum 1 for his interest in our recent case series of maculopathy in poppers users 2 and for debate on this matter with respect to photic maculopathy. The similarity of clinical signs ...

It was just after Christmas in 2013 and David Fajgenbaum was hovering a hair above death. He lay in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas, stricken with a rare disease. His blood platelet count ...