A research team at Virginia Commonwealth University's Institute of Structural Biology and Drug Discovery has shown that 5-HMF, an anti-sickling agent developed by the team, holds promise for the treatment ... Read More

Children who develop recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP), in which human papilloma virus causes tumors in the trachea, bronchi, and lungs, often have a hard time getting the correct diagnosis. Because ... Read More

HoneyBaked Foods, an Ohio-based food processor and distributor, is voluntarily recalling almost 47,000 pounds of cooked ham and turkey products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, according to ... Read More

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an inherited disorder that causes many fluid-filled sacs, called cysts, to form in both kidneys. There are two types of inherited PKD, one of which ... Read More

An experimental cancer treatment, called roscovitine, being developed by Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., may hold promise for treatment of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited genetic disorder. Scientists at Genzyme Corp. ... Read More

A newly-identified gene mutation is responsible for up to 15% of cases of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute studied mutations in a ... Read More

You’ve heard the term, but do you know what an orphan drug is? And why pharmaceutical and biotech companies would want to spend millions developing orphan drugs? (Hint: It’s not ... Read More

The first Jerome Lejeune Clinical Conference will be held November 20-21, 2006, in France at the Institut Pasteur-Paris. The topic of the conference is, "Genetic Mental Deficiencies: Current Care and ... Read More

Research presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, DC, this week looked at bone marrow (stem cell) transplantation as a treatment for severe scleroderma, an ... Read More

The Harvard Medical School - Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics is hosting the Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome and Noonan Syndrome Scientific Meeting 2006 in Potomac, Maryland, November 17 - 19, ... Read More

Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, has it. So does public radio host Diane Rehm. Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder caused by involuntary spasms (dystonia) of one ... Read More

A woman in Kansas who was thought to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) has regained her voice after being silent for nearly 3 years. De Glaze suddenly ... Read More

MSNBC Health reports that a 10-year-old Indiana girl died of rabies on Thursday, November 2, 2006, the first human case of rabies in Indiana since 1959. Shannon Carroll was bitten ... Read More

Several reports have been published in the medical literature suggesting that infliximab (Remicade) is beneficial in treating sarcoidosis in the lungs, so researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center ... Read More

Cancer that begins in lymph cells (lymphoma) is divided into two major categories: Hodgkin lymphoma (Hodgkin’s disease) and all other lymphomas (also called non-Hodgkin lymphomas). A rare non-Hodgkin lymphoma is ... Read More

Researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reported on their study of the orphan drug arimoclomol (CytRx Corp) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) ... Read More

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to interview the 183 individuals who became sick with salmonella poisoning (salmonellosis) during the outbreak which began September 1. ... Read More