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Rainbow Children's Hospital Saves Three-Year-Old in Extremely Rare Critica
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 6: In a complex case within paediatric critical care, physicians at Rainbow Children's Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, have treated successfully a three-year-old boy from Bengaluru who suffered from tuberous sclerosis, refractory seizures, alongside seve
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Study reveals expanding gene therapy for rare disease that causes blindnes
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In an effort to treat the rare genetic condition Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A), a University of Houston researcher is developing a gene therapy technique.
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Awareness walk advocating inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in societ
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI/PNN): On the occasion of the "International Day of Persons with Disabilities" (IDPD) 2022, Ayushkama Foundation organized an "Awareness Walk for Equal Participation of Persons with Disabilities", at the Central Vista Avenue, India Gate, New Delhi. The organ
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Lab-grown 'mini eyes' unlock understanding of blindness in rare genetic co
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have grown 'mini eyes', which make it possible to study and better understand the development of blindness in a rare genetic disease called Usher syndrome for the first time.
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Researchers find oldest case of rare genetic condition
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 29 (ANI): Researchers have found evidence of a super rare genetic condition that gives men an extra X chromosome, reporting the oldest clinical case of Klinefelter Syndrome to date.
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Steroid treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy may depend on time of d
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Ohio [US], February 22 (ANI): Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and other systemic damage. Every year, about 20,000 children are diagnosed with it. Now, a new study has reported that the time of day for providing the drug may be c
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Slimming surgery puts women at risk of life-threatening condition
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 26 (ANI): Ladies, you may want to rethink going under the knife as according to a recent study, liposuction puts you at the risk of developing a rare genetic condition that can lead to fat globules entering their lungs.
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Organ-on-a-chip model offers clues to rare ageing condition
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 5 (ANI): Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare genetic condition that causes premature and accelerated aging and now, a team of researchers has built a new model that offers insights into it.
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Innovative technique connects liver `directly` to the heart
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 8 (ANI): A 21-year-old Iraqi woman, who suffered from a rare genetic condition in which blood clots prevented the flow of blood into the liver and outflow from the liver to the heart, has been given another chance to live a full and happy life by the doctors.
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