The parents of a 7-year-old girl, Sabrina Brierton Johnson of Los Angeles, have sued Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals, and several other firms which make and distribute ... Read More

This book, published in 2003 by Hunter House Publishers, has at its core the stories of individuals affected by antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The author states her hope that perhaps these ... Read More

Not, it's not related to the season. Christmas disease is a form of hemophilia named after the 10-year-old boy with the disease whom researchers studied in 1952 in Oxford, England. ... Read More

Researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) studying the neurological disorder ataxia-telangiectasia have devised a way to repair one of the genetic mutations involved in the disorder. They bathed ... Read More

Kawasaki disease causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body. In developed countries, Kawasaki disease has replaced rheumatic fever as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in young ... Read More

In the past, scientists believed that the abnormally sickle-shaped blood cells in sickle cell anemia lodged in blood vessels because of their shape. Although shape plays a role, sickle cells ... Read More

In his doctoral thesis, Dutch researcher Dr. Pascal Groenen investigated how different nutritional components in a pregnant mother's diet affected the risk of her baby developing spina bifida, an abnormality ... Read More

Felty syndrome is a potentially serious condition that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Although many individuals with Felty syndrome have no symptoms, others may develop life-threatening infections.

CuraGen Corporation announced on November 10, 2004, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted orphan drug designation to CR002, a fully human monoclonal antibody, as a potential ... Read More

Abdullah Alazemi of Kuwait celebrated his 1st birthday on Monday, December 6, 2004, one he might not have reached if an extraordinary surgery to repair his Hirschsprung's disease and internal ... Read More

Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disorder whose cause is not known. In the disorder, the body produces antibodies against its own phospholipids or plasma proteins, which leads to recurrent blood ... Read More

December 1-7, 2004, is National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week. It is sponsored by the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation. Aplastic anemia is the failure of the bone marrow to ... Read More

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has initiated the treatment phase in the pivotal Phase III TRIUMPH trial to evaluate effectiveness of the investigational drug eculizumab in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), ... Read More