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What is Kernicterus?

If your baby has any of the symptoms of jaundice, it’s important to see the doctor immediately. Babies usually have their highest bilirubin level w...

Kawasaki Disease

Call your doctor if your child has these symptoms, including a fever between 101 and 103 F that lasts more than 4 days. Don’t give your child any m...

What is Homocystinuria?

Homocystinuria (HCY) is a rare condition that interferes with your body’s ability to break down a protein from the food you eat. The screening incl...

What is Hirschsprung's Disease?

Though the disease can be deadly, modern medicine is able to fix the problem with surgery, and help children who have been treated to live relative...

Gilbert Syndrome

Gilbert’s syndrome (also called constitutional hepatic dysfunction or familial nonhemolytic jaundice) is a common disorder that's passed through fa...

What is Gastroschisis?

It can help determine if your baby has gastroschisis. If your baby has gastroschisis, you’ll need extra attention while you are pregnant. Ultrasoun...

What is Galactosemia?

Breast milk is full of good things that babies need -- key nutrients, hormones, and antibodies that protect them from disease and keep them healthy...

What is Fragile X Syndrome?

Fragile X syndrome affects a child's learning, behavior, appearance, and health. In people with fragile X, it repeats more than 200 times. Boys are...

What is Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva?

A glitch in one of the genes that tells your body how to grow your bones and muscles causes the condition. In most cases, you don’t get FOP -- whic...

Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder, which means you get if from your parents at birth. Cystic fibrosis is caused by a change, or mutation, ...

What is Chickenpox?

You can get the virus by breathing in particles that come from chickenpox blisters or by touching something on which the particles landed. Chickenp...

What are Lysosomal Storage Disorders?

Without the enzyme, this fat builds up in cells and damages them. This enzyme helps make and maintain myelin, the protective coating around nerve c...