Sometimes, it may be best to not do surgery on an aneurysm — a bulge in a weakened area of…
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
Wearing compression garments — tight-fitting, elastic clothing items — and doing physiotherapy may help people with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome…
May is awareness month for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), and this year there are many…
A young man with an unusual combination of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, a rare disease of the skin and organs, and…
A young girl with short stature due to spondylodysplastic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (spEDS) was found to carry two copies of…
Some people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) may experience dysphonia, or a hoarse voice, as a consequence of their disease,…
A Tarlov cyst, a fluid-filled sac in the spine that may rarely occur as a complication of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS),…
A family in China was found to carry two mutations causing vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) over multiple generations, a…
A new mutation in the most common gene causing vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (vEDS) — COL3A1 — was found to…
Aytu BioPharma has formed its new scientific advisory board, which will work toward advancing the global development of AR101…