Genetic disorders News

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A new test that requires only a tiny sample of a mother's blood to scan the genome of a fetus may offer a safer alternative to current methods of prenatal screening for genetic diseases, a new study suggests. ...

MONDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Afinitor (everolimus) has received expanded approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a rare genetic disorder called subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) that cannot be treated with surge...

TUESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- With new rules in place that lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, health-care advocates are looking down the line and wondering when the first medical advances based on s...

MONDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Berinert (C1-esterase inhibitor) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first sanctioned treatment for a rare genetic disease called hereditary angiodema (HAE), the agency said in a ne...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A genetic tweak of the unfertilized eggs of macaque monkeys effectively prevented the transmission of diseases typically passed down through the maternal line, U.S. scientists reported. The hope is that the m...