October 27, 2015 Identical twin slated to be delivered 4 months after brother in rare birth New mother Holli Gorveatt, of Kirkland, Wash., is pre- and post-partum with her identical twins after giving birth to one last month and expecting her next to arrive in January.
October 27, 2015 Kentucky girl, 6, dancing to raise awareness for life-threatening condition Few people can resist tapping their feet to Mark Ronson’s hit song “Uptown Funk”— and 6-year-old Audrey Nethery, of Louisville, Kentucky, is no exception.
October 27, 2015 Maryland man blames shoplifting on temporary amnesia A 46-year-old man fined $500 for shoplifting at a Maryland grocery store in February is disputing the citation by saying he experienced a rare condition similar to a brief form of amnesia, My Fox DC reported.
October 27, 2015 North Carolina families raising funds for rare disease research to save baby boys A North Carolina family is rallying to raise funds for medical research in the hopes it may one day lead to a cure for a rare disease that threatens the life of their 1-year-old son, Jude, 19actionnews.com reported.
October 27, 2015 Maine woman ‘allergic to the world,’ thanks to rare disease Just about every time 29-year-old Crystal Goodwin goes out in public, she must put on a surgical mask as a precaution. If she doesn’t, she risks having her immune system going haywire— an effect of the rare disease that has taken her normal life hostage, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS).
October 27, 2015 Man to undergo second surgery to remove 14-pound tumor from face A Slovakian man is preparing to undergo a second operation to remove the remainder of a 14-pound tumor from his face, Central European News (CEN) reported.
October 27, 2015 Infant’s mysterious death reveals rare genetic disease After the death of a newborn boy and his father’s subsequent illness, researchers used genomic analysis to reveal a previously undiscovered family disease, reported Medical Xpress.
October 27, 2015 South Carolina family defends toddler cyberbullied for rare medical condition The family of a 2-year-old girl with a rare genetic condition is speaking out against Internet trolls who began mocking her appearance in a Facebook photo, MyFox8.com reported.
October 27, 2015 Researchers find new drug target for treating mitochondrial disease Experts have long been searching for a way to effectively treat mitochondrial disease – and now, new research points to a potential drug target that can rescue cells suffering from mitochondrial dysfunction.
October 27, 2015 Massachusetts doctor's rare condition helps him 'feel' what patients feel A Massachusetts neurologist’s rare condition is helping him to relate to patients in a way that not many others can.