According to a story from philly.com, a pair of twins, Marilyn and Sharon Alexander, have dedicated much of their lives to cancer advocacy after a life and death battle nearly…
According to a story from tapinto.net, the Merrill family was crushed upon learning that their five-year-old daughter Leila was born with Sanfilippo syndrome, a lysosomal storage disease that ultimately causes…
Eva Shea wondered about her daughter. Mimi went to preschool like most children, and seemed otherwise healthy. She had, however, a peculiar, chronic cough. It sounded as though Mimi smoked…
According to a story from Cosmos Magazine, Dr. Kathryn North is committed to researching the vast expanse of the human genome in order to pinpoint the ways in which genes…
Do you have to be tested for an inherited gene mutation if you have already had cancer? Can a woman get a genetic mutation from her father? If you have…
According to a story from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a group of scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unearthed a new mechanism that could…
A man in France has been the first person to ever receive two face transplants, reports the BBC. After Jérôme Hamon’s first transplant was rejected he underwent a second transplant…
Doctors told Samantha Youakim she had hepatocellular carcinoma when she was 10 years old. As a result of this rare form of liver cancer, the experts told her she’d only…
Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have just developed a potentially life-saving device for patients with Addison’s disease, reports Newcastle University. Patients will be given a Quick Response (QR)…
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