Conyers School teacher Alan Richardson sadly died this month after a battle with a rare brain disorder :: He has donated his ...

GBS is a rare immunological nerve disorder that causes sudden numbness and muscle weakness. Read on to know more about this ...

Managing the unpredictable symptoms of indolent systemic mastocytosis prompted a search for answers and community.

Several tests and an MRI later revealed that Rolstone had epilepsy, and she was diagnosed with Chiari malformation, a rare condition in which brain tissue grows into the spinal canal and part of ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

From Adrenoleukodystrophy to Zollinger Ellison Syndrome, there are currently over 7,000 diseases identified as rare. In the U.S., the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 defines a disease as “rare” if it affects ...

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

Advancing medical care for rare diseases requires focus ... s plea to fund medical research for his young daughter’s rare brain tumor diagnosis quickly spiraled into a viral phenomenon, fueled ...