The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it has approved SpringWorks Therapeutics' drug to treat a type of rare ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to treat a disorder causing the growth of noncancerous tumors on ...

Health systems across the country are making it easier for primary care clinicians to order genetic tests for patients who ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is ...

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 babies are born with the condition each year. It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person’s DNA ...

For the past month, local basketball programs have teamed up to raise awareness and spread hope for 9-year-old Autumn and ...

For children with signs of neurological conditions such as autism, epilepsy and global developmental delay, genetic testing can help make the diagnosis, identify possible treatments and determine ...

A mother-of-four who lost two children to the same rare genetic condition says the fear of losing another child is "paralysing" as she calls for more research into sudden childhood death.

A genetic study of childhood obesity in about 6,400 school-going children aged 9-18 years has ... role in obesity and related metabolic disorders,” she says. “Since genetic factors alone ...