Who gets Lennox-Gastaut syndrome? Lennox-Gastaut syndrome affects around 1 or 2 in every 100 children with epilepsy. The most common time for this syndrome to start is between 3 and 5 years of age. It ...

What is Guillain-Barré syndrome? Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP). It's a neurological disorder in which the body's immune ...

Indian teen Lalit Patidar has set a Guinness World Record for the hairiest face, with 201.72 hairs per square centimeter, due to a condition called hypertrichosis. Despite early challenges and ...

Down Syndrome Ireland’s Donegal branch is gearing up for World Down Syndrome Day on Friday 21st of March. Ahead of the big day, the branch is shining a spotlight on one of their wonderful members Seán ...

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is a set of symptoms that occur when blood flow through the superior vena cava is partially or fully blocked. The superior vena cava is the large blood vessel that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

However, the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and early-onset CRC remains unexamined. Design We conducted a nested case–control study among participants aged 18–64 in the IBM MarketScan ...

"It felt like someone put my heart in a blender and literally kicked me in the gut as hard as they could." On what should have been a joyous evening with friends, Sarah's* world was sent spinning by ...

Thus, Gilles de la Tourette's disease is not the same as what today is labeled Tourette syndrome. Outside Charcot's circle, most physicians believed that multiple motor tics and coprolalia were a ...

While this pain is often associated with runner’s knee, there’s another common running related injury that can could be to blame: iliotibial band syndrome a.k.a. IT band syndrome. The iliotibial band, ...

Genetic testing results confirmed the diagnosis of autosomal recessive Bartter syndrome type 4b, attributed to recessive digenic mutations in both CLCNKA and CLCNKB genes (1p36.13). On audiological ...