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My teenage son has Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome (OCNDS), an ultra-rare genetic disorder caused by a mutation on the CSNK2A1 gene, which creates the CK2 protein present in every cell in the body.

Leanna Stokes had gotten into the habit of asking her oncologist what might be next for her treatment, and for good reason. Stokes, a 36-year-old gymnastics manager from New Rochelle, New York,

WASHINGTON — President Trump moved on Saturday to “reverse the crisis of serious mental illness in America” by boosting access to psychedelic drugs in clinical settings. In an executive order, he directed

The nomination of a new leader for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — one who has scientific credentials and no public ties to the anti-vaccine movement — has generated sighs

Immune tolerance has long been the holy grail in transplant medicine, a hoped-for end to the downsides of anti-rejection regimens for patients after they receive lifesaving organ transplants. A small, early-stage study

Arbitration decisions, it turns out, are like cockroaches. They’re very hard to kill.  It’s a long held truism in the legal world, and it was underscored this week when a federal judge

President Trump nominated Erica Schwartz on Thursday to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tapping a former public health leader for a position that has been filled mostly

WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returned to Capitol Hill Thursday, where he defended the administration’s efforts to fight health care fraud and improve affordability — and worked to avoid

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