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Medical Mystery: Doctors Puzzled After 4 Sisters In US Diagnosed With Same Rare Brain Condition
In a case that doctors have called "unbelievably rare," four sisters from West Virginia were diagnosed with the same brain and spinal condition known as Chiari malformation.
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US Boy's Life Saved After Mother's Google Search Uncovered Rare Brain Condition
A Texas mother's online search led to a life-saving diagnosis and surgery for her 6-year-old son, who was initially misdiagnosed with the flu but was later found to have a rare brain vascular condition.
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This Woman Feels No Pain Thanks To Rare Genetic Mutation
Scientists have discovered how a lady with a rare genetic condition can live her life almost pain-free.
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Doctors Remove Cyst Bigger Than 3-Month-Old's Head At AIIMS Delhi
A three-month-old boy from Bangladesh, suffering from a rare congenital condition, got a new lease of life after doctors at AIIMS here removed a protruding part of his brain which had turned into a giant cyst, larger than the size of his head.
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Toddler Suffers Back Pain, Doctors Find His Brain Was Too Big For His Skull
The two-year-old was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation Type I, a rare condition in babies and children.
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Covid Poses Higher Risk Of Rare Brain Conditions Than Vaccines: Oxford-Led Study
COVID-19 is more likely to cause very rare neurological conditions than vaccination with the AstraZeneca or Pfizer preventives, according to a study led by the University of Oxford in the UK.
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What Is Hyperacusis? Know All About This Hearing Disorder
Hyperacusis is a rare hearing disorder that can make the patient highly sensitive to even minor sound. Read here to know all about this condition.
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High Insulin In Newborns Ups Brain Damage Risk
The generally rare condition, called congenital hyperinsulinism, can also be as common as cystic fibrosis in children born into communities where cousins marry.
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US Woman Carried Dying Baby To Term. Then, Donated Her Organs
Krysta Davis was 18 weeks pregnant when she was told that the baby she was carrying had an abnormality. Her to-be-born daughter Rylei Arcadia Diane Lovett was diagnosed with anencephaly, a rare condition in which an infant is missing parts of the brain or skull.
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"We Are Doing Everything Possible To Help Him," Says Michael Schumacher's Family On His 50th Birthday
Formula One icon Michael Schumacher turned 50 today on January 3, 2019, and the family plans to celebrate the seven time world champion's overwhelming career on his birthday. Michael has been under recovery ever since the ill-fated skiing accident in France, in 2013, which left him with a brain injury. Five years on, his condition remains a closely...
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Shocking! 10-Month Old Baby Weighs 28 kilos, Doctors Stunned At The Rare Condition!
Luis Manuel Gonzales, a 10-month old suffers from a strange hormonal condition. The child weighs 28 kilos which can be life-threatening.
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Mumbai Couple Was Not Allowed To Abort. Now, Baby's Fighting For Life
'We have to see our child die in front of our eyes, do you know how traumatic that is," asks the father of a child who was born on July 1, with a rare condition that has deformed his brain and spine.
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'We Had No Hope': The Amazing Story Of The Baby Born With His Brain Outside His Skull
Dustin and Sierra Yoder, from Sugarcreek, a small town in Ohio, knew that Bentley had a rare condition in which his brain was growing outside of his skull. Sierra Yoder said doctors told them that their son would not live long past his birth
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22-year-old from Kashmir survives tumour as big as a cricket ball
It was a life-saving miracle for 22-year-old Kashmiri youth Majid Khan, who was operated upon at a hospital in Delhi for a tumor the size of a cricket ball, doctors said on Friday. The condition was rare as the tumor burst into a blood vessel making Khan's condition potentially fatal.
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Meet the girl who could die simply by combing her hair
A schoolgirl in Scotland has a rare condition following which she has been asked not to comb her hair too vigorously as it could lead to her brain shutting down.
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Medical Mystery: Doctors Puzzled After 4 Sisters In US Diagnosed With Same Rare Brain Condition
In a case that doctors have called "unbelievably rare," four sisters from West Virginia were diagnosed with the same brain and spinal condition known as Chiari malformation.
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US Boy's Life Saved After Mother's Google Search Uncovered Rare Brain Condition
A Texas mother's online search led to a life-saving diagnosis and surgery for her 6-year-old son, who was initially misdiagnosed with the flu but was later found to have a rare brain vascular condition.
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This Woman Feels No Pain Thanks To Rare Genetic Mutation
Scientists have discovered how a lady with a rare genetic condition can live her life almost pain-free.
-
Doctors Remove Cyst Bigger Than 3-Month-Old's Head At AIIMS Delhi
A three-month-old boy from Bangladesh, suffering from a rare congenital condition, got a new lease of life after doctors at AIIMS here removed a protruding part of his brain which had turned into a giant cyst, larger than the size of his head.
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Toddler Suffers Back Pain, Doctors Find His Brain Was Too Big For His Skull
The two-year-old was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation Type I, a rare condition in babies and children.
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Covid Poses Higher Risk Of Rare Brain Conditions Than Vaccines: Oxford-Led Study
COVID-19 is more likely to cause very rare neurological conditions than vaccination with the AstraZeneca or Pfizer preventives, according to a study led by the University of Oxford in the UK.
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What Is Hyperacusis? Know All About This Hearing Disorder
Hyperacusis is a rare hearing disorder that can make the patient highly sensitive to even minor sound. Read here to know all about this condition.
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High Insulin In Newborns Ups Brain Damage Risk
The generally rare condition, called congenital hyperinsulinism, can also be as common as cystic fibrosis in children born into communities where cousins marry.
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US Woman Carried Dying Baby To Term. Then, Donated Her Organs
Krysta Davis was 18 weeks pregnant when she was told that the baby she was carrying had an abnormality. Her to-be-born daughter Rylei Arcadia Diane Lovett was diagnosed with anencephaly, a rare condition in which an infant is missing parts of the brain or skull.
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"We Are Doing Everything Possible To Help Him," Says Michael Schumacher's Family On His 50th Birthday
Formula One icon Michael Schumacher turned 50 today on January 3, 2019, and the family plans to celebrate the seven time world champion's overwhelming career on his birthday. Michael has been under recovery ever since the ill-fated skiing accident in France, in 2013, which left him with a brain injury. Five years on, his condition remains a closely...
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Shocking! 10-Month Old Baby Weighs 28 kilos, Doctors Stunned At The Rare Condition!
Luis Manuel Gonzales, a 10-month old suffers from a strange hormonal condition. The child weighs 28 kilos which can be life-threatening.
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Mumbai Couple Was Not Allowed To Abort. Now, Baby's Fighting For Life
'We have to see our child die in front of our eyes, do you know how traumatic that is," asks the father of a child who was born on July 1, with a rare condition that has deformed his brain and spine.
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'We Had No Hope': The Amazing Story Of The Baby Born With His Brain Outside His Skull
Dustin and Sierra Yoder, from Sugarcreek, a small town in Ohio, knew that Bentley had a rare condition in which his brain was growing outside of his skull. Sierra Yoder said doctors told them that their son would not live long past his birth
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22-year-old from Kashmir survives tumour as big as a cricket ball
It was a life-saving miracle for 22-year-old Kashmiri youth Majid Khan, who was operated upon at a hospital in Delhi for a tumor the size of a cricket ball, doctors said on Friday. The condition was rare as the tumor burst into a blood vessel making Khan's condition potentially fatal.
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Meet the girl who could die simply by combing her hair
A schoolgirl in Scotland has a rare condition following which she has been asked not to comb her hair too vigorously as it could lead to her brain shutting down.
