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Treating rare diseases can break the bank
Difficult to diagnose and expensive to treat, children with a rare disease mostly succumb to their condition after living in pain for years. Doctors...
Spinal Muscular Atrophy — A genetic disorder
The effectiveness of treatment would improve with earlier disease detection. Clinical investigations have shown that pre-symptomatic treatment with...
Study finds link between lethal childhood disease & muscle decline
At the heart of both disorders is the survival motor neuron protein, which is present throughout the body, and is important for keeping motor neuron...
Growing motor neurons guided by 'relationships' with blood vessels
The discovery has implications for understanding diseases in which motor neuron connections are destroyed, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or...
Karnataka High Court issues notice to Centre on treatment of...
The Karnataka High Court has issued a notice to the Centre in connection with the medical treatment of a 17-month-old baby suffering from rare Spinal...
CM asks Fin Min to exempt taxes for life saving drugs for SMA
SMA is a rare disease causing loss of nerve cells, which carry electrical signals from the brain to muscles. For the children affected by it, gene...
HC to set up med board to examine infant suffering from SMA, needing...
The infant's father, who is an autorickshaw driver, has moved the high court, seeking free treatment for his son as the same costs around Rs 18 crore...
