News Archivies 2006

Confronto a Crema: screening neonatali
Sabato 2 dicembre si è svolto a Crema, presso la Sala Alessandrini, il convegno Screening neonatali: quali e perché, organizzato dall'Unità Operativa......
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27.12.2006

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A Christmas to Cherish: A Successful Liver Transplant for 10-Year-Old Luke Brassard is ?Nothing Short of a Miracle'
On Christmas Day, Luke Brassard might eat turkey. He might devour several helpings of pumpkin pie and wash them down with hot chocolate. ......
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25.12.2006

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Gene chip discovery may lead to individualized treatment for 5 hereditary liver diseases
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have developed the first gene chip to use in the early diagnosis of at least five hereditary......
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21.12.2006

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  ORPHAN EUROPE
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21.12.2006

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CLIMB NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2006
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20.12.2006

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Newsletter NZORD - the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders Dec. 20, 2006
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20.12.2006

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BioMarin Announces Positive Results From Phase 3 Extension Study of Phenoptin for PKU
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq and SWX: BMRN) today announced positive results from the pivotal Phase 3........
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18.12.2006

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Scientific American.com Profiles First Human Neural Stem Cell Transplant in the Country
Scientific American's science news web site, sciam.com, today posted the findings of the first ever human neural stem cell
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18.12.2006

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BURLO, LA MONTATURA E' FINITA
L’ospedale triestino ottiene dalla Regione rassicurazioni sulle sue competenze in fatto di malattie rare nei bambini e tutti sembrano contenti. Peccato che ora........
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17.12.2006

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Stem Cells Are Where It's At
Seventeen years ago, Richard Burt, an immunologist at Northwestern University, had a crazy idea. What if .......
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17.12.2006

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Plan to screen all newborns for metabolic disease
The Health Ministry hopes to screen all newborn babies for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) or inherited metabolic diseases. .......
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17.12.2006

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 Amicus Therapeutics Commences Phase 1 Clinical Trials for AT2220 for Pompe   Disease
Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule, orally-administered pharmacological chaperones....
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14.12.2006

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 E la Convenzione va!
Anche il 13 dicembre è destinato a diventare una data "storica" per le persone con disabilità nel mondo: infatti, poco fa - esattamente alle 10.50, ora di New York -l'Assemblea Generale delle...
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13.12.2006

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 Boy, 6, Survives Experimental Brain Surgery to Implant Stem Cells
The first child to undergo experimental brain surgery with a Silicon Valley company's proposed stem-cell treatment has recovered enough from the.......
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12.12.2006

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 TIM All Star Game: gara delle schiacciate e tiro da tre punti
Dopo il successo dello scorso anno, con Pervis Pasco incredibile nell’andare a canestro saltando su Drew Nicholas, anche l’edizione 2006 riproporrà la spettacolare gara delle.....
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12.12.2006

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Terapia genica: una sequenza applicata al gene-farmaco ne evita il rigetto
Grazie ad una scoperta italiana condotta all’Istituto San Raffaele-Telethon balzo in avanti nella terapia genica. Ora si studia l’applicazione in.......
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12.12.2006

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Hope for O.C. boy rides on stem cells
Daniel Kerner's parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely ......
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12.12.2006

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New Therapy for Kids With Pompe Disease
Enzyme replacement therapy created by U.S. researchers extends life in kids with Pompe disease, a rare......
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07.12.2006

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Malattie rare: dimenticate da chi?
Malattie rare: se ne parla poco e si fa poco . Una recente indagine realizzata dal Forum per la Ricerca Biomedica con il Censis, dal titolo “La nuova domanda di comunicazione.....
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06.12.2006

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Investigator in Phase I Clinical Trial for Batten Disease to Present at Lysosomal Disease Network World Symposium
Robert D. Steiner, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.M.G., will present at the Third Annual Lysosomal Disease Network World Symposium at ......
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06.12.2006

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College students flock to screening for Jewish genetic diseases
Every week, Jeanne Rogal spends two hours treating herself for Gaucher disease, an inherited disorder that can cause harmful buildup of a fatty substance in......
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06.12.2006

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Toddler will help study rare disorder
 Gretchen and Mark Noah have big plans for their son, Markie. In their hearts, they know he will make a difference in the ......
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04.12.2006

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New Drug Offers Hope For Rare Hunter Syndrome
There is new hope for patients who suffer from Hunter Syndrome, a rare metabolic disorder. A Cambridge company has.......
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04.12.2006

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Father's love fuels desire to find cure for genetic disease
John Crowley barely understood some of the words a doctor used when he was told his 15-month-old daughter and 4-month-old son had a rare .....
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02.12.2006

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Eurordis
Eurordis Newsletter December 2006                                                                           Eurordis Newsletter Dicembre 2006
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01.12.2006

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Parents raise awareness of disease that took their child
Rare, degenerative Tay-Sachs disease stole Conner Hopf's ability to see and hear and, eventually, to move before he died quietly at home Sunday, two months......
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29.11.2006

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MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE: A NEW CLASS OF ILLNESSES
See the video
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23.11.2006

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Maple Syrup Urine Disease hits family
Imagine you had a rare disorder that wouldn't allow your body to process proteins and you can eat only specially pre-packaged foods. Imagine that .........
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23.11.2006

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 CADASIL
July 2006 Newsletter
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23.11.2006

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 Lew, Family Fight Their Own War at Home
Five years ago, former Waterloo East and University of Iowa star rusher Lew Montgomery began his on-going battle.
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23.11.2006

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  Board Think Again on Hayleigh's Illness
A GLASGOW schoolgirl is the only child in the UK to be refused NHS treatment for a rare illness, it has been claimed.
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22.11.2006

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  Gene Therapy For Hereditary Lung Disease Advances
An experimental gene therapy to combat alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a common hereditary disorder that causes lung and liver disease, has caused no harmful effects
News completa
22.11.2006

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  Gaucher Community News
Newsletter Summer 2006
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21.11.2006

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  Orphan News Europe
Newsletter of Rare Diseases Task Force
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20.11.2006

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  NHS board reviews girl's therapy
Health board officials in Glasgow are meeting to discuss whether to fund treatment for an eight-year-old girl with a rare degenerative condition.
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21.11.2006

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  NHGRI funds large-scale sequencing centers
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced the results of the recent competition for support of its three
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20.11.2006

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 PerkinElmer Selected for Expanded Neonatal Screening of Every Newborn in the Netherlands
PerkinElmer, Inc. a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced that it has been selected to......
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17.11.2006

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 StemCells Begins Study on Rare Disease
Biopharmaceutical company StemCells Inc. said Wednesday it transplanted a human neural stem cell as part of an early stage clinical trial to combat a rare......
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15.11.2006

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 GALACTOSEMIA GAZETTE
Parents of Galactosemic Children, Inc.
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14.11.2006

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 “BURLO, BASTA PIAGNISTEI”
Continuano le polemiche sul coordinamento della ricerca per le malattie rare a Udine. Qualcuno però, come il commissario del Burlo Emilio Terpin, fa marcia indietro. .
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07.11.2006

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 Handling Genetic Disorders - A Mitochondrial Disease Family's Story
Dr. Gwenn, I am the mother of a little girl diagnosed with Mitochondrial Disease Complex I. I've recently become involved in the Mitochondrial Disease Action Committee (MDAC), who......
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06.11.2006

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 What is Tay-Sachs disease?
Tay-Sachs is a fatal genetic disorder that causes progressive destruction of the central nervous system.
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05.11.2006

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 Eurordis

Eurordis Newsletter Novembre 2006

 

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01.11.2006

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 Scientists discover gene causing rare lysosomal storage disease
Czech scientists have discovered a gene that causes mucopolysaccharidoses, type III, a rare metabolism disorder in which the body cannot
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26.10.2006

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 Porfirie: San Gallicano è riferimento per la diagnosi
1° incontro internazionale dei malati di Porfirie al Centro Congressi "Bastianelli"
Il Centro per le Porfirie dell'Istituto Dermatologico San Gallicano (ISG) si occupa da
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26.10.2006

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 Cura per la malattia di Pompe
Sta per essere messo in commercio in Italia il «Myozyme», la prima terapia specifica oggi disponibile per i pazienti affetti dalla malattia di Pompe o Glicogenesi di tipo II,..........
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25.10.2006

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 Medicine gives boy’s family reason to hope
Sharon Cochenour didn’t expect her oldest son to live this long, to almost 9.
And even though she organized fundraisers for research money in earnest.....
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24.10.2006

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 New Technology Predicted To Revolutionize Genetic Analysis Of Preimplantation Embryos
The Center announced today it has a patent pending, all rights reserved, for a new screening technology to identify chromosome abnormalities, single gene mutations,....
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22.10.2006

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 Metabolic Disorder Underlies Huntington's Disease
A metabolic disorder underlies the brain effects found in those with Huntington's disease, researchers report in an advance article publishing online October 19, 2006.
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20.10.2006

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 Replagal: First Therapy To Provide New Hope For Children With Fabry Disease
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has announced a licence variation for REPLAGAL (agalsidase alfa) to include children with Fabry disease from seven years of
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20.10.2006

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 ELAPRASE™ (idursulfase) receives positive opinion in Europe
Shire plc  today reported that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) issued a positive .........
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19.10.2006

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 Niemann-Pick Disease Fundraiser At Senior Center Sunday
Although Niemann-Pick Disease is a rare childood disease, less than a 1,000 known cases worldwide, the research that is being done for it may impact other more well-known .......
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18.10.2006

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 'Overwhelming' response to fundraiser helps little girl with rare disease
 Alexandria "Ally" Bexton clapped with her grandfather in a pew at Faith Missionary Church on Sunday, perhaps not fully realizing that all of the singing,.......
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16.10.2006

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 Newborn testing saving lives
Leslie Preston and Laura Warth-Leach already had plenty in common, even before they had babies in their arms. The teens have known each other since kinde.......
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13.10.2006

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 Uniamo F.I.M.R.
 Newsletter n. 7
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11.10.2006

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Newest American Baby Faces Health Challenges
America's population will reach 300 million next week and if this newest American is a newborn, that baby has 1-in-9 chance of being uninsured sometime during childhood.
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11.10.2006

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Da domani il Centro dell’hotel Flaminio ospita tre congressi scientifici di straordinaria importanza
Da domani al 13 ottobre, nel Centro Congressi dell’Hotel Flaminio, si svolgerà un Congresso Nazionale congiunto di tre Società Scientifiche:.........
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10.10.2006

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Orphan News Europe
Newsletter of Rare Diseases Task Force
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10.10.2006

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Nutra Pharma Announces Final Approval to Begin Phase IIb Human Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Adrenomyeloneuropathy
Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB:NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis, has announced that ReceptoPharm, has received Ethics Committee ......
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05.10.2006

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Tests have identified 40 cases of disease
In December, Kentucky began testing all newborns for an expanded list of life-threatening metabolic problems and diseases, 29 in all. Previously, the state......
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03.10.2006

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Testing helps save newborns
Leslie Preston and Laura Warth-Leach already had plenty in common, even before they had babies in their arms.........
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03.10.2006

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One Donor Organ Saves Two Lives In Rare Transplant
Surgeons at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and UPMC saved two patients using a technique known as a domino transplant.
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28.09.2006

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Newborn Screening Method Discovered for Pediatric Disease Made Famous in 1992 Motion Picture, Lorenzo's Oil
The current lack of a newborn screening method for X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) means that many boys born with the often deadly genetic disorder are not
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27.09.2006

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Stem Cell Clinical Trial to Treat Children
The first clinical trial to transplant stem cells to treat a brain disease is set to get under way this year. ......
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23.09.2006

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Nasce il nuovo 'Patto per la Salute' che avrà una durata triennale  
Dopo un lungo incontro iniziato questa mattina alle 9.30 al Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze è stato raggiunto l'accordo tra regioni
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22.09.2006

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Studies Published In PNAS On The Mechanism Of Amicus' Experimental Treatment For Gaucher Disease
Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule, orally- administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of a range of human
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21.09.2006

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Settimana Internazionale delle Malattie Rare
5 anni di false promesse e di lunghi silenzi della Politica per le Malattie rare: finalmente oggi Scienza, Politica e Società civile insieme per parlare concretamente di Malattie..........
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18.09.2006

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National Institutes of Health launches user-friendly Web site
Need information on reading disability? Want to know how much calcium is in a serving of broccoli? Trying to find out how to apply for a research grant to study spinal cord
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17.09.2006

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Teen with rare disease looks to his future
That was the fate of a family in The Woodlands, until this summer.
At the ripe old age of 14, Nick Melynk has already beaten the odds.
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13.09.2006

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September is National Newborn Screening Awareness Month
September is National Newborn Screening Awareness Month, and according to the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG),.........
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12.09.2006

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BioMarin and Serono Announce Data on Phenoptin in PKU to be Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.  and Serono  today announced data from clinical studies of Phenoptin(TM) (sapropterin dihydrochloride), an investigational oral small-molecule therapeutic....
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12.09.2006

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National Gaucher Foundation Hosts 'September Summit' of Jewish Community and Healthcare Leaders to Fight Jewish Genetic Disease
In response to alarming new data that only six percent of the American Jewish population is aware of Gaucher (Pronounced.......
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12.09.2006

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BioMarin Provides Update on Phenylase Product Development
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.  announced today that investigators presented data from preclinical studies of Phenylase(TM) (phenylalalanine ammonia lyase).......
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11.09.2006

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Transplant gives parents, child hope
When I met Elizabeth "Elly" Hulett, she was a handful - more than I expected.
She jumped around the living room with her grandmother Sandra Hulett and dance.......
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10.09.2006

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 Orphan News Europe
Newsletter of Rare Diseases Task Force
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08.09.2006

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L'eurovigile dei farmaci parte da Reggio Emilia
Parte da Reggio l’eurovigile dei farmaci e opererà su tutto il territorio europeo. Domani, in città, si riuniscono tutti i partner del progetto sulla farmacovigilanza denominato....
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08.09.2006

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OVATION and Cardinal Health Announce FDA Approval Letter for Manufacturing of Biologic Therapy To Treat Rare Genetic Disorder
OVATION Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Cardinal Health, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued
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06.09.2006

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Genzyme Commends New Book for Portraying Challenges Faced by Patients with Pompe Disease and Their Families
Genzyme Corporation today welcomed publication of "The Cure," a new book by Geeta Anand that reveals for the general public the enormous challenges faced
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31.08.2006

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Previously approved drugs may be helpful in fatal pediatric disorder
A progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is often fatal within the first two decades of life may be treatable via a molecule already targeted by approved drugs, scientists .....
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28.08.2006

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Uniamo F.I.M.R.
Newsletter n. 6
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25.08.2006

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Young Girl Ill With Rare Disease: Fundraiser is Planned for Her at ACD Festival
In a special unit at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, 16-month-old Cadence Elizabeth Rigden of Fort Wayne is spending this week fighting off an infection....
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24.08.2006

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Inherited Metabolic Disorder More Common Than Thought
An inherited metabolic disorder called SCADD, which can cause developmental delay and other problems, is more common than
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22.08.2006

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 Family Works To Raise Awareness Of Tay Sachs Disease
We first introduced you to her three months ago, Molly Grace Jordan. She is a toddler from Whitley County who is dying of a deadly genetic disorder called...