People with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) or generalized hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) who experience more severe pain tend to use…
Margarida Maia, PhD
Margarida is a biochemist (University of Porto, Portugal) with a PhD in biomedical sciences (VIB and KULeuven, Belgium). Her main interest is science communication. She is also passionate about design and the dialogue between art and science.
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Articles by Margarida Maia, PhD
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is not just a problem of the connective tissue that provides structure to the body,…
A young man with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) developed a cerebral air embolism caused by air entering blood vessels…
A swallowed fish bone led to an intestinal tear in a man with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) that required…
Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) does not appear to increase the risk of life-threatening complications during pregnancy and delivery, according…
People with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) often have abnormalities such as small gaps in the upper part of their…
Including the experiences and needs of people with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) or generalized hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) in…
Zevra Therapeutics has been enrolling and dosing new patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial testing celiprolol, a beta…
A fragment of fibronectin, a protein that assists in wound healing, appears to be found only in the blood of…
About every third child with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and every fourth with generalized joint hypermobility at a clinic in…