For most healthy people a cold or upper respiratory infection is really inconvenient, you feel like garbage for a few days, and might cough for a while, but otherwise your other body systems are not greatly affected and you get over it. mais 1.031 palavras
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Top 5 things to know about VLCAD
Yesterday was Rare Disease Day, and in honor of this day I would like to bring you the top 5 things you need to know to understand Very Long Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency, or VLCAD. mais 994 palavras
Rare Disease Day
Today is Rare Disease Day, the day the zebras show their stripes and remind everyone that hoofbeats don’t always belong to horses. It is the last in a month full of awareness days for us ( mais 604 palavras
Rare Disease Day 2019
When we started this blog, we believed that today, February 28, 2019, would not come for Katherine.
We’d lost our first child from an early miscarriage. mais 514 palavras
Present Day: The Quest for More Answers
Currently, Finnian, Christopher, and myself will be undergoing what is called a trio genetics test to look for inborn errors of metabolism or mitochondrial disease. … mais 1.233 palavras
77: Surprised by Special Needs with Elizabeth Baker
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This week my guest is Elizabeth Baker. Elizabeth is a blogger and writer as well as a wife and mom. mais 136 palavras
A study found mitochondrial DNA has been inherited from fathers, not just mothers. So what does this mean for science?
On Mother’s Day I send my scientifically literate mother a picture of a mitochondria captioned, “Thanks, Mom for giving me something that Dad never could.” Turns out that’s not true anymore. mais 956 palavras