Their youngest daughter, Jalyn, was diagnosed with Krabbe Disease, a rare, inherited condition that can cause neurological issues and can result in death. After spending 156 days in a Pittsburgh ...

Karla Wolford reaches out to hug her son, Kasyn, as she exits a plane with her daughter, Jalyn, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at the Fargo Jet Center. Jalyn received a bone marrow transplant in ...

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune condition where the body attacks its own tissues when gluten is eaten, which prevents normal digestion and absorption of food, with the risk of developing serious ...

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Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

HHS is partnering with Texas health officials to better combat the measles outbreak in the state and has deployed teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the area ...

However, these did help to make the diagnosis in 15 cases (four cases of Alpers syndrome, two cases of pontocerebellar hypoplasia, two cases of neuroaxonal dystrophy and single cases of Krabbe disease ...

Joy Milne first smelled the disease on her late husband, Les, 17 years before he was diagnosed with it Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

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The authors noted that the finding of 50 percent slower disease progression was robust, being unchanged after controlling for multiple factors, for example by using controls matched to each ...

He’s not wrong. News Editor Allison Quinn is writing a series of columns about her son’s treatment for a rare disease. It may just be a coincidence that my son asked if humans “can go ...