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EM:HE heads over to Colorado Springs, Colorado to help the Woodhouse family, whose ten-year-old daughter, Kayla, has a rare disease called Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy (specifically, Type 4, also known as Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis; only 25 people in the world have been diagnosed with this disease). As a result ...
Evan and Alec's big sister, Elle is very helpful with all the things the family has to face. Evan suffers from Monosomy 9p, a disease that causes skeletal abnormalities and developmental disabilities, and Alec suffers from Crouzon's Syndrome, another rare disorder that causes hearing loss and cranial abnormalities. These boys are well known in ...
Genie in the House: A disease of genies which causes them to change colors, become invisible and have squeaky voices. Geodermic granititis, cobbles Look Around You: A disease that attacks the central nervous system, fooling it into calcifying the bodily tissue, eventually turning the victim into a pile of rocks. More commonly known as cobbles.
Fortunately, Bayliscacaris infection in humans is extremely rare. As the CDC noted in a September 9 report on seven cases (none fatal) detected between 2013 and 2015, the United States saw just 22 ...
Although it has been defined as an extension of pneumoconiosis, there is no scientific evidence for a similar disease related to volcanic silica particle exposures. [8] Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [9] [10]
A rare disease is technically defined (in the European Union) as a disease that is found in fewer than 5 people per every 10,000 people. ...
Rickettsialpox is a mite-borne infectious illness caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (Rickettsia akari). [1] Physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz played major roles in identifying the cause of the disease after an outbreak in 1946 in a New York City apartment complex, documented in "The Alerting of Mr. Pomerantz," an article by medical writer Berton ...
A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan ...