September 7, 2016 Newborn seen in viral photo hugging twin brother dies of rare disorder One of the 11-day-old twin brothers whose first hug was captured in a recent viral photo has died of a rare disorder, his family announced Wednesday.
September 6, 2016 North Carolina family seeks kidney donor for toddler Hazel Kate Niemitalo is only 16 months old, but she needs an adult organ to have a normal life.
September 6, 2016 Georgia boy robbed of ability to walk asks for birthday cards A 9-year-old Georgia boy isn’t asking for toys ahead of his first double-digit birthday.
September 1, 2016 A father's mission: How one man developed a drug to save the lives of his children In 1996, John Crowley’s two youngest children received what doctors at the time believed to be a death sentence.
August 30, 2016 Florida boy with partial skull defies another odd to turn 2 Jaxon Buell, the Florida boy born with a rare, incurable defect wherein his head and brain are partially formed, defied another odd recently when he turned 2 years old.
August 24, 2016 Model raising awareness of rare condition that caused leg to double in size A former model in Australia is gaining a following on Instagram as she shares photos of her swollen leg to raise awareness of a condition she’s been coping with since her first pregnancy.
August 24, 2016 Dr. Manny: American taxpayers should not be only contributors to Clinton's public health fund With the number of Zika cases in Florida continuing to rise and public health officials predicting the number of locally transmitted cases in our country to reach the hundreds by fall, it is clear that now more than ever we need a concrete plan with proper funding to tackle this virus.
August 24, 2016 Florida teen survives rare amoeba infection that kills most people A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the infection is made by a company based in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday.
August 16, 2016 Saving Eliza: 6-year-old girl with deadly disorder enrolls in clinical trial after 2-year quarantine A South Carolina family who were under a self-imposed quarantine for two years in order to protect their six-year-old daughter who has a rare, debilitating disease, is celebrating the beginning of a clinical trial that will allow them to return to the outside world.
August 16, 2016 Giant heart: Unusual condition means heart is 80 percent of man's chest A 57-year-old man who went to the emergency room for swelling of his extremities learned that his symptoms had an unusual cause: a massively enlarged chamber of his heart, according to a brief report his case.