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According to a story from Politico, the two legislative bodies of the Virginia General Assembly, the House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia, passed vastly different budgets last week,…
According to a story from fosters.com, a twelve year old boy that survived a battle with brain cancer has begun playing ice hockey, his favorite sport, once again. Levi Whitcomb…
According to a story from macleans.ca, eight-year-old Mason Stewart has been dealing with the effects of spinal muscular atrophy since he began to walk; he developed an unusual walking gait…
According to a story from Science Daily, patients with cystic fibrosis have to deal with higher concentrations of bacteria in the lungs within their first few years of life, which…
According to a story from macleans.ca, Julia Alton felt hopeless when she first started to experience the symptoms of her Fabry disease. However, she refused to let the disease hold…
According to an article from kait8.com, the pharmaceutical company Polaryx announced that its experimental drug PLX-200 has received Orphan Drug Designation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment…
According to a story from MSN, Heather Huus is living life without a stomach. This may seem impossible, but keeping her stomach could have made things far worse for her.…
According to an article from Khon2, locals on Honolulu Island in Hawaii are starting to raise concerns after the children of three firefighters from the Waipahu Fire Station were diagnosed…
According to a story from ABC News, medical researchers are beginning to monitor the long term health of people that have donated one of their kidneys. A kidney transplant can…
An exciting "win" in the relatively common glaucoma department could also mean a "win" for rare childhood glaucoma patients. According to an article from MedicalXpress, two recently approved treatments for…
According to a story from sixthtone.com, patients with hemophilia living in China are using paper cutting to help restore their dignity and reclaim control of their lives. Hemophilia is a…
According to a story from seas.yale.edu, a recent study conducted under the supervision of Yale University is providing new clues for the underlying cause of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The researchwea…
According to a story from the National Organization for Rare Disorders, patient advocacy organizations are joining forces to send letters to Medicaid directors across the USA to advocate for the…
According to an article from Times-Call Regional News, a seven year old girl named Mila Makovec has just begun an experimental treatment for Batten disease. Originally from Boulder County, Colorado,…
According to a story from BBC, a former employer is paying for a woman's cancer treatment. 74 year old Pamela Stubberfield of Oxfordshire was diagnosed with mesothelioma. More than 80…
According to a story from Newswise, a recent study shows that Merkel cell carcinoma, which historically has affected only a few thousand people per year, is becoming more prevalent, especially…
According to a story from the International Business Times, researchers have successfully grown kidney tissue that can filter and produce urine within a living organism. This has the potential to…
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According to a story from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, scientists from the university used a sample of skin cells from diseased patients and transformed them…
According to a story from Yahoo News, The family of Isla Caton, a three year old girl diagnosed with neuroblastoma, has raised enough money for her to travel to New…
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