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Of or pertaining to the prevention and treatment of illness, and the preservation of physical and mental well-being, through the services provided by medical professionals.
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Fatal Familial Insomnia
Health care; Incurable diseases
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but can also ...
Hunter syndrome
Health care; Incurable diseases
Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II, is a lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficient (or absent) enzyme, iduronate-2-sulfatase (I2S). The syndrome is named after physician Charles ...
Krabbe disease
Health care; Incurable diseases
Krabbe disease (also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy or galactosylceramide lipidosis) is a rare, often fatal degenerative disorder that affects the myelin sheath of the ...
Lissencephaly
Health care; Incurable diseases
Lissencephaly, which literally means smooth brain, is a rare brain formation disorder caused by defective neuronal migration during the 12th to 24th weeks of gestation, resulting ...
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Health care; Incurable diseases
It is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes. It was named after Thomas Hodgkin, who first described abnormalities in the ...
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
Health care; Incurable diseases
SSPE is also known as Dawson Disease, Dawson encephalitis and measles encephalitis. It is a rare chronic, progressive encephalitis that affects primarily children and young ...
Morquio's syndrome
Health care; Incurable diseases
Morquio's syndrome is an autosomal recessive mucopolysaccharide storage disease, usually inherited. Patients with Morquio's syndrome appear healthy at birth. They often present ...
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