"Watching my mom die of ALS was one of the most awful things I’ve gone through. I don’t want my children to see me suffer ...

The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prevents health insurers and employers from discriminating against a person based on their genetic information, Rep. Dave Rogers told the ...

The Food and Drug Administration on March 10 changed the approval for a version of the prescription drug leucovorin to include people with a very rare genetic condition. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

President Donald Trump weighed in on domestic terror incidents involving a synagogue attack in Michigan, an IED placed at the mayor's home in New York City, and a shooting at Old Dominion University ...

At 17, he started his long journey through addiction treatment units. Now 22, he has been treated numerous times in the psychiatric unit of his local hospital for bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, and ...

The move comes months after the Trump administration touted leucovorin as a potential therapy for a broader group of patients with autism symptoms.

More and more kids today are being diagnosed with “adult” diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure. But can kids get ...

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So it would seem helpful that new research on autism has just discovered a possible genetic link -- an alteration near a gene called semaphorin 5A, which is thought to guide the growth of brain-cell ...

In comments to The Associated Press, senior FDA officials said they found little evidence for expanding the drug’s use to autism and, thus, narrowed its review to the treatment of the rare genetic ...

The Canadian Paediatric Society has issued a new position statement about the screening, diagnosis and management of ...