A California toddler is the first person in the world to receive gene therapy to treat his devastating disease. Three-year-old Oliver Chu was born with a rare, genetic condition called Hunter syndrome. Also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II), Hunter syndrome is a disorder where the body cannot break down specific sugar molecules. As … Read more
A mother in Washington has been charged with manslaughter for allegedly delaying life-saving medical care for her diabetic child. Lloydina McAllister’s 10-year-old daughter, who had Type 1 diabetes, slipped into a coma on a summer road trip with her family, according to news reports. The child, identified in documents only as T.G., was dead by … Read more
For some families, the joy of a new baby comes with unexpected challenges: About 3% of US newborns — roughly 1 in 33 — have a birth defect each year. While it might seem scary, the good news is that nearly all fetal abnormalities can be detected on prenatal ultrasounds. Identifying issues early allows parents … Read more
Emma Heming Willis is opening up about one of the toughest calls she’s had to make while caring for husband Bruce Willis — and the therapy she says she needed to prepare for it. The retired actor, 70, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023, a disease that has stripped away much of his … Read more
Perhaps it’s time to dust off your shelf-care routine. Around 80 million Americans — about one-quarter of adults and nearly 20% of children — suffer from seasonal allergies. These spring snifflers experience a reaction to airborne substances such as pollen from trees, grasses and weeds. Unfortunately, it’s possible to endure year-round nasal congestion, coughing and … Read more
Jordan Kruse realized something was wrong with her newborn, Pruitt, hours after bringing him home from the hospital last year. “He started to refuse nursing,” Kruse, 32, told The Post. “You’re supposed to nurse [newborns] every two hours, so that was my first sign.” Pruitt Kruse arrived on May 17, 2024, joining his two older … Read more
Finally, there’s a new vision for addressing this common eye condition. Dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) slowly damages the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central vision. Geographic atrophy is an advanced and irreversible form of AMD that affects about a million Americans. This image from the study shows the patient’s retina before … Read more
Nearly at her due date and seemingly healthy, one 27-year-old woman says a bizarre symptom had her rushing to the hospital — where she soon had to undergo an emergency C-section and open-heart surgery. MK Campbell from Texas was 35 weeks pregnant when she awoke to a scary sensation in her chest. “[I] rolled over … Read more
A novel gene therapy has been found to significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, offering new hope to sufferers of the incurable disorder that destroys brain cells over time. Drugmaker uniQure reported the results of its small but “groundbreaking” Phase I/II study this week, finding that a high dose of its AMT-130 therapy slowed … Read more
Map got your tongue? In what appeared to be a slip of the tongue, “Saturday Night Live” alumna Kate McKinnon recently revealed to People that she has an odd but harmless medical condition called “geographic tongue.” “Your tongue sheds in patches and looks like an atlas, hence the name ‘geographic tongue,’ ” McKinnon, 41, explained … Read more
Get a load of this hard-boiled horror. After years of silent growth, doctors were shell-shocked to discover a tumor nestled inside a Chinese man’s scrotum that had ballooned to the size of a chicken’s egg. With no other symptoms, the oversized lump was the only sign of a condition so rare it’s been documented just … Read more
Here’s something to chew over. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions — a large waistline, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, high fasting blood sugar and little “good” cholesterol — that significantly increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes. You need three out of five of those risk factors to be … Read more
It was un-frog-ettable. Isabelle Zeidner, 23, first realized something was off with her body when she was 9 or 10 years old. Her head colds were plagued by a lot of saliva — and gurgling noises that resembled toad croaks. “I just remember that was, like, really weird,” the Manhattanite told The Post about her … Read more
California health officials are warning about a surge in a potentially deadly fungal infection. The state is reporting 6,761 cases of valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, through July this year. That means California is on pace to top last year’s record of 12,595 cases. There were fewer than 1,000 cases logged in the year … Read more
A woman was horrified when her breasts suddenly swelled five cup sizes for no apparent reason —thanks to a painful condition that caused people to stare and believe her to be pregnant. Michelle Sekwena had a petite, 32A-size chest and was comfortable in her body before the shocking change, which took place over several months. … Read more
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Camilla Luddington revealed this week that she’s battled an autoimmune disease. The actress, 41, said on the “Call It What It Is” podcast that she’d been feeling constantly “slothy” and “tired” — but figured at first that it was just her age or even hormonal changes. “I thought, I have two kids, I’m in my … Read more
Talk about omnAIpresent. Some 75% of Americans have used an AI system in the last six months, with 33% admitting to daily usage, according to new research from digital marketing expert Joe Youngblood. ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence services are being utilized for everything from research papers to resumes to parenting decisions, salary negotiations and even … Read more
Come again? Doctors in China say they’re baffled over the case of a young woman who experiences uncontrollable organisms multiple times per day — leaving the terminally-titillated 20-year-old in a perpetual state of arousal. “The sexual arousal symptoms are characterized by recurrent and spontaneous orgasmic experiences,” wrote Jing Yan and Dafang Ouyang of the Peking University … Read more
A woman who lost her ability to see after a joyful romp on the beach is opening up about the frightening ordeal. Deborah Cobb was 19 years old when she broke out in a series of cartwheels — only to come up without her vision. Now 42, Cobb has said that she has the ocular … Read more
It’s not such a fairy tale. With stress, smartphones, and bad nighttime habits, many of us are struggling to get the recommended six to nine hours of sleep each night. However, a rare condition causes some to doze for nearly an entire day for days on end. A rare condition called “sleeping beauty syndrome” causes some to … Read more