The standard treatment for Kawasaki disease, one of the leading causes of acquired heart disease in children, is aspirin and intravenous immunoglobulin. A study published in the October 2005 issue ... Read More

When Warner Bros. sent out its worldwide casting call in 1939 for "little people" for its new movie, The Wizard of Oz, 120 men and women showed up to audition. ... Read More

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and their colleagues have identified a gene, called SLITRK1, that is associated with some cases of Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder. The team used ... Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 31, 2005, approved orphan drug designation for ZED6474 (Zactima) for the treatment of follicular, medullary, anaplastic, and locally advanced and metastatic ... Read More

Alcohol use during pregnancy damages the developing fetus and may result in fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidelines for the identification ... Read More

The Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Clinical Research Network has announced a clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), to study nonalcoholic fatty liver ... Read More

Researchers at the Children's Hospital Boston Program in Genomics, the Harvard Medical School Program in Neuroscience, and collaborators in Saudi Arabia have found children and adults with a unique genetic ... Read More

The About.com Guide to Parenting Special Needs has found some great links to gifts such as wheelchair backpacks and winter wear that fits on or in wheelchairs.

On October 4, 2005, the European Medicine Evaluation Agency approved orphan drug status for niprisan (Nicosan), made by Xechem International, Inc., for treatment of sickle cell disease. Nicosan is made ... Read More

According to a study reported by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center, Clioquinol, an antibiotic, decreased symptoms of Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, in mice. The mice, bred to ... Read More

Fragile X syndrome is caused by a genetic defect of a single gene on the X (female) chromosome. Fragile X syndrome affects approximately 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in ... Read More

November marks National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer does not receive as much media attention as breast or prostate cancer, but it is well deserving. Pancreatic cancer will ... Read More

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the protein associated with Rett syndrome, MeCP2, only binds to genes with a specific sequence of nucleotide bases. This means that ... Read More