Buerger disease, also known as thromboangiitis obliterans, is an inflammatory disease that affects the arteries and veins of the arms and legs. Smoking both brings on Buerger disease and makes ... Read More

On February 3, 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved orphan drug status for Proxinium (VB4-845), made by Viventia Biotech, Inc. Proxinium is intended to treat advanced, recurrent ... Read More

Reuters News reports that a rare case of craniopagus parasiticus exists in Egypt. Manar Maged, 10 months old, was born with an undeveloped conjoined twin attached to the top of ... Read More

This syndrome is caused by blockage of blood flow out of the liver. It most often occurs in individuals with underlying disorders that cause blood clotting, or chronic inflammatory diseases.

The Washington Post reports that 61 miners in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo have died, and hundreds have become ill, from an outbreak of pneumonic plague. ... Read More

On January 27, 2005, PTC Therapeutics, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to PTC124 for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy ... Read More

Crigler-Najjar syndrome is an inherited disorder of bilirubin metabolism. Prompt recognition of the syndrome in infancy and treatment of the excess bilirubin in the body prevents brain, muscle, and nerve ... Read More

According to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, a mouse model they developed mimics the human genetic disorder neurofibromatosis 1, in which tumors grow in ... Read More

Milagros Cerron, a 9-month-old Pervuvian girl called the "Little Mermaid" because of her rare birth defect, has undergone the first step in correcting her disorder. Born with sirenomelia, known as ... Read More

This book provides a comprehensive resource for those affected by RSD, and the people who care for and about them. Positive Options for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) is, in itself, ... Read More

Researchers have known that Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder, is associated with the MECP2 gene on the X (female) chromosome. It was not know, however, the role that MECP2 played ... Read More

Scientists have learned that the symptoms of Tourette syndrome, a brain disorder, likely arise from dysfunction in a region deep within the brain called the basal ganglia. A University of ... Read More