Researchers have known that spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), Huntington's disease, and other related neurodegenerative disorders have genetic mutations in the form of repeats which cause resulting proteins to have ... Read More

A five-year study scheduled to begin in Spring 2006 called Stroke With Transfusions Changing to Hydroxyurea (SWiTCH), funded by the National Institutes of Health, will investigate whether a new combination ... Read More

Learn what a bone marrow transplant is, how it's done, what the donor and recipient experience, and how you can become a marrow donor.

In a study published August 29, 2005, in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute report on their ... Read More

The pharmaceutical firm Acambis has developed a smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000, which it supplies to the US and other governments under a special agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ... Read More

Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is an autoimmune neurological disorder. Its name describes its symptoms: opsoclonus is jiggling eye movements (nystagmus) and myoclonus means involuntary muscle twitching.

About 10% of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) have an inherited form of the disorder. In some of these individuals, mutations in the gene for Cu/Zn superoxide ... Read More

In reviewing five randomized controlled trials involving 457 people with primary biliary cirrhosis, a liver disease, researchers at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark found some disturbing results of methotrexate (Rheumatrex) ... Read More

In Kasabach-Merritt syndrome, a tangle of improperly developed blood vessels (hemangioma) grows to become a large, discolored mass, most commonly on the skin. Problems with blood clotting may also occur.

Scientists from the University of Florida Genetics Institute have successfully used gene therapy in mice to treat retinoschisis, an inherited disease which causes loss of sight in boys. The RS1 ... Read More

Robert J. Beall, Ph.D, President and CEO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, believes there may be more than 500 Hurricane Katrina victims with cystic fibrosis. Therefore, the foundation has extended ... Read More

When most Americans think of muscular dystrophy, they picture Jerry Lewis surrounded by children during the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association's Labor Day Telethon. Muscular dystrophy, though, is not just one ... Read More

Hemophilia is an inherited blood clotting disorder. Individuals with hemophilia A require intravenous infusion of recombinant Factor VIII clotting protein to make their blood clot properly. Researchers at Harvard University ... Read More