Gabriella Earnhart, who received her Make-A-Wish dream of an inspiring trip to Broadway, has enrolled at Pepperdine University to study musical theater and marketing.

Genetic variants have been strongly implicated in idiopathic scoliosis (IS), however, the list of variants that are causative of IS is not complete and the cellular and molecular mechanisms that ...

Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) is a common spinal deformity. Various studies have linked genes to IS, but underlying mechanisms are unclear such that we still lack understanding of the causes of IS. The ...

Advances in scoliosis treatment and monitoring have added options for patients and drawn children, adolescents, and their families more directly into care. One innovation harnessing artificial ...

Adolescents with myopia had hernias, scoliosis and flat feet significantly ... between syndromic connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and myopia.

Hyderabad: Osmania General Hospital cured a youth from Andhra Pradesh who was suffering from chronic liver, lung issues caused by Marfan Syndrome Hyderabad: A liver transplant helped cure a chronic ...

Hyderabad: In a groundbreaking surgery, the surgeons at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) on Thursday reported a successful liver transplant surgery on a 37-year-old patient with Marfan’s Syndrome, a ...

The pioneering procedure was led by Dr Ziad Aljian, senior consultant spine surgeon and scoliosis expert, who holds a German Board certification in orthopedic spine surgery and has over 20 years ...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a heritable connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in the Fibrillin‐1 gene, which encodes the extracellular matrix protein fibrillin‐1. Patients with MFS are ...