rare disease

<!-- -->Fortunately, Ms Mattei is now on the road to recoveryA 25-year-old Italian woman who had been suffering from back pain has become paralyzed due to a rare disorder, Newsweek reported. According to the report, Aurora Mattei's …

Britain’s fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the U.K.’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic…

When a pair of Canadian parents learned three of their four children will gradually lose their vision due to a rare genetic disease, they were devastated. Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier went through a grieving process — rife with…

Shivayya’s head has grown huge and he can barely open his eyes.Shivayya is diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a rare disease which builds-up fluid in the cavities deep within the brain. In India, rare diseases are serious public health…

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<!-- -->Talia Sinnot was diagnosed with gastroparesis.A 25-year-old woman from the United Kingdom has been living off a diet of digestive biscuits after being diagnosed with a rare stomach disease. The woman, Talia Sinnot, was…

A family from Bangladesh, now living in Toronto, is encouraging people to consider living organ donations as they wait for their young daughter to get a liver transplant that could save her life. “She was having jaundice but it’s…

In less than a year, the parents of an Ontario toddler said they have watched as their daughter has lost all of her fine and gross motor skills and can no longer walk or sit up. “Her (fourth) birthday is in October. We don’t know…