The rare "bubble boy disease" that impacts how a child's immune system works and cuts them off from the outside world may have a cure after a clinical trial showed promise. NBC Washington's Erika ...

Rotavirus is highly contagious, fast-moving and especially dangerous for babies and young children. Doctors worry declining ...

Researchers analyzed data of 178,977 children with atopic dermatitis and/or persistent asthma (median age, 11.8 years; 47.2% girls) from PEDSnet, a pediatric clinical research network in the US, to ...

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Eight years ago, President Donald Trump signed the Right to Try legislation to give people with terminal illnesses a chance at life. Now his Food and Drug Administration has undermined those ...

The FDA made waves with its recent announcement that a single well-controlled Phase 3 study would suffice for a drug submission, replacing the previous standard of two pivotal studies. This past week, ...

An Ultragenyx gene therapy has scored a win at the midway point of its phase 3 trial, successfully reducing ammonia levels in patients with a rare urea cycle disorder. Thirty-six weeks after one-time ...

In a study involving about 12 million adults, those with a deficiency of vitamin D had a 28.6% higher risk of developing dry eye disease than those with adequate levels of the nutrient. Researchers ...

A population-based Danish cohort study found pediatric IBD incidence increased 272% over four decades, with Crohn's disease rising from 30% of diagnoses before 1990 to more than half by the 2010s.

Heart disease is usually viewed as a disease that affects adults, but the causes of heart attacks, including high cholesterol, can be spotted in childhood. That’s why Intermountain Children’s Health ...

Stecker is a rare disease mother and advocate and served as assistant secretary of public affairs and deputy chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every parent dreams of a ...