A study published in the October issue of the journal Thorax describes research into cystic fibrosis and the use of the antibiotic azithromycin. French researchers split 82 youth (average age ... Read More

This genetic disorder affects the central nervous system, eyes, skin, and immune system. It affects both males and females, and is usually diagnosed in early childhood. Although the gene for ... Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) missed their goal of wiping polio off the face of the planet by the end of 2005. The ... Read More

KBPA101 for pseudomonas pneumonia On October 3, 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved orphan drug status for a human antibody called KBPA101, made by Kenta Biotech, Ltd., for ... Read More

The results are in, and they're not good: of 3,135 human cases of West Nile virus infection in the United States this year, 97 were fatal, according to the U.S. ... Read More

Forty years ago, when my cousin was an infant, no one could tell her parents why she couldn’t sit up by herself at age 6 months. (They were told the ... Read More

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in the October 13, 2006, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that an outbreak of foodborne botulism came from ... Read More

A study published September 17, 2006, online at Nature Medicine looked at the potential use of existing experimental drugs, called histone deacetylase inhibitors, in treating muscular dystrophy. The international research ... Read More

Children with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder of chromosome 7, love music and will spend hours listening to or making music. Although these children have mild to moderate mental retardation ... Read More

October is Celiac Disease Awareness Month. Once thought to be rare, studies show that celiac disease may actually affect as many as 1 in every 133 people, and that it ... Read More

Researchers have in the past identified mutuations in 8 different genes as being associated with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disorder that causes children to be blind at birth. Scientists ... Read More

A study conducted by Yale School of Nursing tested a program which trained parents how to manage the disruptive behavior of children ages 6-12 years who have Tourette syndrome or ... Read More

In 1980, researchers produced mice with Niemann-Pick type C disease, a storage disorder that damages the nervous system. Scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, working with ... Read More

This disorder affects the nerves in the brain and other parts of the body, causing them to stop working over time. Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy is usually diagnosed in young children ... Read More

The Learning Channel's hit TV series, Little People, Big World, returns with its season premiere on Saturday, October 7, 2006, at 8/7C. In the series, cameras follow the lives of ... Read More

The Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of seriously ill children and their families, has launched eight health Web sites targeted towards children with chronic and ... Read More

On September 25, 2006, Genentech, maker of the cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified healthcare professionals that an additional warning was being added ... Read More

October is National Spina Bifida Awareness Month. Learn more about this birth defect of the spinal cord and how folic acid has reduced its occurrence. Should countries add folic acid to ... Read More