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 ...

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.

Conyers School teacher Alan Richardson sadly died this month after a battle with a rare brain disorder :: He has donated his brain to research in a final charitable act ...

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 ...

Around 59 people in Pune have been affected with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It is a rare neurolgoical condition in which the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...