Spherocytosis, otherwise known as hereditary spherocytosis, is an inherited blood disorder that causes red blood cells to become sphere-shaped (spherocytes) rather than their normal disk shape.

High blood pressure can be hereditary. If your parents have high blood pressure—also called hypertension—you have an increased risk of also developing high blood pressure. Familial hypertension can be ...

Robert Wickens was one of motorsport's rising stars when his life was permanently altered in a crash that paralyzed him from the chest down in 2018. Ever since, Wickens has said that his goal is ...

Today, the company announced the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy ...

IN this book Mr. Galton proposes to show that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic ...

One finisher, Andrew Patterson, thought he would not walk again after he was diagnosed in 2013 with hereditary spastic paraplegia, a disorder that causes weakness and stiffness in the leg muscles.

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The degenerative brain disease has no cure, and it’s only natural to ask yourself: Is Alzheimer’s hereditary? Meet the experts: James Noble, M.D., an associate professor of neurology at ...

A recent study of clinical and genetic characteristics in patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia highlights the difficulties of making clinicogenetic correlations in a heterogeneous group of ...

All cancers begin when DNA mutations, or changes, cause cells to divide and grow out of control. But this is different from hereditary cancer. Hereditary or familial cancer means that a risk for the ...

This post contains spoilers for the ending of Hereditary. At face value, Hereditary works as an elegant genre film about the occult. But on a subtextual level, even the most supernatural scenes in ...