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Breath-Holding Spells in Children: what to Know
If your young child reacts to sudden pain or upset by not breathing, turning blue or pale, and then fainting, they may have just had a breath-holdi...
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Signs of Child Abuse
When you think of child abuse, your first thought may be of a child with bruises or other marks that raise red flags. Medical abuse is a rare situa...
Read moreWhat is Brittle Bone Disease?
Brittle bone disease is a lifelong genetic disorder that causes your bones to break very easily, usually without any type of injury, as from a fall...
Read moreWhat is Batten Disease?
The type will determine the age when symptoms occur and how fast they develop. (There is also a juvenile onset of CLN1, abnormalities develop aroun...
Read moreWhat is Bartter Syndrome?
Bartter syndrome is a group of similar rare conditions that affect the kidneys. At least five genes are linked to Bartter syndrome, and they all pl...
Read moreApert Syndrome
Abnormal fusion of the bones of the hands and feet (syndactyly) -- with webbed or mitten-like hands or feet -- are also common Apert syndrome sympt...
Read moreAdenosine Deaminase Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID)
You get ADA-SCID only if both your parents pass on a copy of a faulty gene to you. With adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-S...
Read moreWhat to Expect from Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy treats cancer by using high-energy waves to kill tumor cells. There are two kinds of radiation side effects: early and late. The ...
Read moreWilms Tumor
A Wilms tumor (also called a nephroblastoma) is the most common kidney cancer in children. If your child has a Wilms tumor, their kidney cells didn...
Read moreVulvar Cancer
Vulvar cancer is when cancerous cells grow out of control on or in the vulva, the outer part of a woman’s genitals. This is also called Bartholin g...
Read moreVaginal Cancer
Vaginal cancer happens when cancerous cells grow in your vagina. Nearly half of all new cases are in women ages 60 and up. Even more rarely, vagina...
Read moreWhat is Urethral Cancer?
In men, it forms in the cells that line the urethra in the penis. In women, cancer cells grow near where the urethra opens. In this form of the dis...
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