Medical News Today: The key to myasthenia gravis progression may be hidden in serum

Researchers have identified previously undetectable biomarkers that could help diagnose and direct the treatment of a rare autoimmune disease. New research finds clues to myasthenia gravis progression in blood serum. Autoimmune conditions are a class of disease in which a person’s immune system produces antibodies to attack tissues in the body. There are many types…

Connie Chang, James Blakemore

Connie Chang and James Michael Blakemore were married Sept. 7 at Solitude Mountain Resort, a ski resort in Solitude, Utah. Michael Horn, a friend of the couple who is a Universal Life minister, officiated, with William I. Miller, the couple’s professor at the University of Michigan Law School, taking part in the ceremony. The couple…

Lauretta Charlton, Andrew Russeth

Lauretta Corene Charlton and Andrew Richard Russeth were married Sept. 7 at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. Bradley Peterson, a friend of the groom’s family who was deputized as a temporary officiant by Marin County, officiated. The bride, 35, works in New York as an editor for the national desk at…

Leona Rosenblum, Garrett Berntsen

Leona Fitzgerald Rosenblum and Garrett Thomas Berntsen were married Sept. 7 at Camp Puh’Tok, a nonprofit summer camp and learning center in Monkton, Md. Will Quinn, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride and groom each received a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins, she a…